I can't reconcile the way that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, the gorgeous and the tragic. Except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out. I see a middle-aged woman in the waiting room of the...
Jesus made it clear that the moral demands of the faith he taught centered on love, justice, and mercy. I believe that God is, here as everywhere, nudging Christians toward love—love for the Creator, love for other people, love for self, love for the world God has...
I am reminded that my life is a story being told by the Great Artist, and that this journey of faith is quite an epic quest full of danger, struggle, questions, growth, beauty, joy, humor, love, and passion. from Surprised by Myth
While most of us are not yet prophets, we know the presence of a great love, a love that includes the entire world. Awakened by that love, we too are aggrieved in the face of human oppression. A voice within us calls out, “This is wrong and cannot stand.” We yearn for...
Did I offer peace today?Did I bring a smile to someone's face?Did I say words of healing?Did I let go of my anger and resentment?Did I forgive?Did I love?These are the real questions.
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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...
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.