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

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right—and happily so. What freedom there is in such truth! We are inherently important and included, yet not burdened with manufacturing or sustaining that private importance. Our dignity is given by God, and we are freed from ourselves!

Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.