You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

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

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.