If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either.

Unearned gifts and unexpected pleasures bring the most joy.

The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Can we live now “as if” God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The.

When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism.

Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of.