Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.