That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much….

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough..

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since th….

To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful..

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it n….

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray..

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead..

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God..

When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I….

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars..

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another..

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship..

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it..

Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfyin….

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of….

Humanity can be pretty stinky..

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it..

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there..

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there..

I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of ice….

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds an….