prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.