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.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

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

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.

What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.

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

Humanity can be pretty stinky.