To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

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.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.