Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.