A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.