I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?