It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.