Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.