Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

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

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

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