Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself, “How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.