We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.