So what are we inviting ourselves and others into? For those who’ve been out for a while, what are we inviting them back to? ...When we can step out of our institutional concerns, reconnecting with the essence of our faith, we remember the Way of life to which Jesus...
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live, and teach.
Have you ever considered that God has fallen in love with you...? He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you sunshine every morning. Whenever you want to talk he listens to you. He can live anywhere in the universe, but he chose you, your heart. God didn't...
We'll become in our lives what we do with our love.
(We) cannot live without faith because the prime requisite in life's adventure is courage. And the sustenance of courage is faith.
You know, what strikes me is how desperately we all need to know that we are seen and heard. We don't need our lives to be different, or easier; we just need someone to see the pain. To know what we've faced and overcome. To say: Yes. I see this. This is real. We...
I was with the national tour of "Les Miserables" and we were performing in Salt Lake City. At the time, we were doing the poster sales for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. If someone donated $50, they would receive a poster signed by the entire cast. After one...
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity...
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit, and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to...
We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.