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.

There are moments when we have to return to our roots.

Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

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.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

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

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.