Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love..
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message..
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit t….
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church..
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were….
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened….
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us..
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?.
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny..
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer..
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out..
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace..
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do..
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply..
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be..
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multit….
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals..
... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda t….
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up..
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the m….
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me..