Our faith calls us to do what is hard, to give voice to the voiceless, to lift up the poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick
And that's as Niebuhrian as you can get.
drawn to the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change
Churches are institutions of men, and, as a result, they are flawed.
People ask me, 'Rick, are you right-wing or are you left-wing?' ... I'm for the whole bird.
We are called, not asked, not urged, not requested, nor ordered, but called to love one another as Jesus has loved us.
we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. . . . Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion specific, values.
Jesus' agenda is far bigger than just one or two issues ... We have to care about poverty, we have to care about disease, we have to care about illiteracy, we have to care about corruption in government, sex trafficking.
Preachers are not called upon to be politicians, but to be soul-winners.
We need to take faith seriously