For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.