When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

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

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.