True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.