God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

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.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.