The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

Saints cannot exist without a community

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.