If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.
The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.