Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

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.

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

Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.