Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.