With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

By that sin fell the angels.