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

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

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.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

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

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.