For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into Gods story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.