For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.