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

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.