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

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

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.