Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.