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

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.