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.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.