Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?

I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.