I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

Everything that looks like a loss may be an extraordinary, successful life waiting to explode.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

Make vegan friends! It's a tough row to hoe doing it alone.