Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse..

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I….

I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on th….

Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people. O….

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company..

If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know….

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the w….

I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to di….

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness migh….

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people..

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own..

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different ….

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific..

I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience..

The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and charact….

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God..

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them..

Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as p….

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many ….

I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to ….

Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how t….