In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.
You can't have unity without diversity.
How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?
The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.
I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.
The main point is that I think if we want the Earth to survive and everybody to have a positive future, we have to stop thinking in terms of religions and races. We have to face that we are all on the planet Earth together, and we have to figure out how we all survive. It makes no sense if we are all driving hybrid cars, but China pumps massive amounts of CO2 in the air. If we don't start working together and find solutions - if every country thinks only in terms of, "First we, then the other nations" - then we will fail.
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.