I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.

It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.

I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.