Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those wh….

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden f….

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day..

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me..

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did no….

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left..

I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation ….

All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it or not. All I am saying i….

So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling….

The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 peo….

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst..

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing..

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of y….

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motle….

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fi….

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble..

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place..

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed..

It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on o….

There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the ….

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat..