Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.