We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.