It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.