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.

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

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.