There are two kinds of "everybody is welcome" churches: Everyone is welcome to conform to the church's image of what a Christian looks like. Everyone is welcome to fully embody the unique image God created them to be. Run away from the first and run toward the...
If you want it bad enough, you'll put away all of the excuses, and you'll do whatever it takes. If you want it, you'll learn, you'll create, and you'll be patient as you put the effort in. If you want it, you will find a way to make it happen.
Practicing an art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous...
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
The Southern Baptist Convention is wrong. Women are worthy of God's calling and find freedom in Jesus Christ. Women are created in the image of the boundless and limitless God.
Words that oppress us are always accessible, force- fed or spoon-fed and now on the tip of our tongues. These tiny tools are used in the construction of consciousness. There will always be linguistic support for what is, for hand-me-down existences. We will need to...
God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
Depression is a medical condition. We need to create a world where people are as comfortable seeking care for their minds as they are for their bodies.
Leaders don't create followers; they create more leaders.
If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders.