The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

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

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.