Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been...
Often hell is portrayed as a place of punishment and heaven as a place of reward. But this concept easily leads us to think about God as either a policeman, who tries to catch us when we make a mistake and send us to prison when our mistakes become too big, or a Santa...
Let the pulse of our heart throb now, according to the cadences of your rule: command and we will obey, overrule and we will yield, lead and we will walk, where we would never think to go. from Prayers for a Privileged People
Think of me as an old church: The floors are gone, the walls are moldy and bend with the winds and the rains, the roof allows too much light and too much migratory membership, but every once in a while, there is beautiful music, an inspiring snatch of words, and a...
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.