I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.