I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.