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

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

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

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

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

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.