I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.

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