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

When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

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

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

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

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.