Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

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

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

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.

I think that at the core of faith is trust.