God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
Your reach should always exceed your grasp.
Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
Not to decide is to decide.
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.