I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.