Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.

O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.