I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

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.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.