When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone….

When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close at….

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste an….

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequence….

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs..

Christian' makes a poor adjective.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man..

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's….

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble..

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed ….

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. W….

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove..

What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is g….

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's br….

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning,….

What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it..." The label….

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be..

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bibl….

When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppr….

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embraci….

We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking mysterious world we li….