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

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

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

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.