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

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.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

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

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

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.