The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.

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.

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

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.