The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.