At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.