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

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

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.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

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

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.