I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

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

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

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.