All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain..

We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain….

The ego hates losing – even to God..

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only seconda….

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge..

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physica….

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong..

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified wit….

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world..

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times..

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even hap….

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why..

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heave….

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through..

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter..

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that ….

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place..

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now..

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation..

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level..

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and e….