To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary world views, or with "pelvic morality" as the defining issues of the Gospel? Jesus surely didn't. Jesus said to "preach the gospel to all nations", which means we do not just talk to ourselves.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.