We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.

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

Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.