Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.