It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life