What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.

I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.