Prayer is - keeping company with God.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.