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In situations like this, it is controlled chaos. I wish I had the code to unlock Michael’s mind. But no such code exists. All I can bring to the conversation are my heart and my trust that God wants me in the midst of this chaos. The imprisoned are the poorest of the poor. If the heart of God is to be found anywhere, it is to be found in the hole.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

With God or without God, what is the effect, what is the consequence for others, of the story we have chosen to follow? Cruelty or kindness? Hatred or love? Contempt or understanding?
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
We have preached a gospel that leaves us believing that we can be reconciled to God but not reconciled to our Christian brothers and sisters who don’t look like us—brothers and sisters with whom we are, in fact, one blood.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
We must join the resistance by making solidarity with those who struggle for life in the face of death.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed

Radically ordinary hospitality—those who live it see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God’s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth. They know they are like meth addicts and sex-trade workers. They take their own sin seriously—including the
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