Dennis Hesselbarth

“People come to community because they want to help the poor. They stay in community because they realize they are the poor.” - Jean Vanier

Angry people are usually hurt people. Their disappointment...is often rooted in a much deeper and rawer disappointment: with a parent, a spouse, a job, life itself. I can't recall one harsh critic who, as I got to know them, didn't have a story to break your heart. MARK BUCHANAN

Ponaganset High Sch., R.I. pledge: “As a member of the Ponaganset community, I pledge to look for the lonely, the isolated, the left out, the challenged and the bullied. I pledge to overcome the fear of difference and replace it with the power of inclusion. I choose to include!”

Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett: “When one side denies the legitimacy of good faith disagreement over policy — as well as over constitutional principle — the other side will eventually reciprocate. Neither a constitutional republic nor a democracy can survive that.”

The greatest tragedy of mankind comes from the inability of people to have thoughtful disagreement to find out what's true. - Ray Dalio

“Masquerading as a normal person is exhausting.” Stephen Smith in Soul Custody.

“We can’t be married to the agenda of the donkey or the elephant. We must be married to the party of the lamb.” - Rev. Samuel Rodriguez.

Finally, done, with daughter Tracy's help!

1 organ donor can save as many as 8 lives. Join me and #DonateLife by signing up in the Health app on iPhone or at RegisterMe.org

Walter Bradley not only introduced me to Christ but profoundly modeled loving God and loving our neighbor. To my great joy, we had lunch together Saturday. Gratitude. Feeling loved.

There is no way to defend the morality of separating immigrant and refugee children from their parents. It is wrong. Cruel. Evil. The ends do not justify the means.

By labeling any human (even M13!) as less than fully human, we can rationalize treating them less than human. Does Love our enemies only apply to "decent" people? I think not. teapawt.net/danielhill1336/status/…

Following Jesus is not a list of things to do but a Person (and persons) to love.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

At my Uncle Ron’s memorial service. A life well lived with passion and love.

Justice, for followers of Jesus, rises out of love for others. Indifference to injustice betrays a lack of love.

The church made changes without it's members valuing the changes. It hasn't gone well. "Change values before changing structures."

My post about two churches who excel at living in community and caring for others. Yep. I’m cheerfully biased... goo.gl/Aa8bps

"The mark of community—true, biblical unity—is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit." Bill Hybels

The "struggle for the soul of health care." individual fairness vs the common good... goo.gl/UcQoJe