Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

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