The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

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

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues.