Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.