To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

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

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