The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.
The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
God is a placebo for your own mortality.