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

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.