For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

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

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.