Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.