I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

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