The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms the….

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-si….

We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situa….

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds..

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply ….

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my st….

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I….

I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our ….

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within..

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mind….

The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go ….

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at ….

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will….

In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works ….

It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there th….

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?.

Good teaching comes from good people..

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its lo….

Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projec….

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others..