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

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

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.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.