If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.