Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

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.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.