When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Faith can take many different forms and expressions.