You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives