When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

God is not a diversion.

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.