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

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

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

I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.

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

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