A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.

Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.