[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.

People fall short. Your finger-pointing hurts you more than it does them. Less judgement. More compassion

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.