There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.