There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.

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

The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.