What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

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

Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and that’s something we must work to change.