We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.