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

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.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The journey never happens alone.

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.