You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.