Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.