Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings ….

I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different from one another. They all had passion ….

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….

God ain't finished with any of us yet..

My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, ….

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….

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the jour….

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world.….

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to ….

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands ….

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference..

By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish a….

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were ….

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 ….

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values ….

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they….

The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart..

When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes because it is an unsafe si….

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. Wi….

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination..

Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about th….