It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused