You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.