If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.