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.

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

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.

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

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

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.