Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

When angels carry you they leave no footprints in the sand.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.