Kids are more nimble than wise.

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?