As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth by hand in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole co...
What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough...
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, na...
The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.
Columbus wrote this of his dehumanized cargo: It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell….Here there are so many of these slaves…although th...
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing u...
Who do we think we are — we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the ga...
There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.
In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and violence, angry at inhumanity, angry at waste, angry at destruction, angry at inj...
I have no doubt that Jesus would actually practice the neighborliness he preached rather than following our example of religious supremacy, hostility, fear, isolation, misinformation, exclusion, or de...
I do know this about pride: pride is tiring, a cruel task-master, a complicator, a destroyer. Humility, in contrast, relaxes, refreshes, relieves, simplifies, renews. To the degree that becoming child...
Here’s the papal proclamation of 1455 that empowered the Christian kings of Europe to enslave, plunder, and slaughter in the name of discovery: invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Sa...
Community has become a buzzword in the church in recent years. Overbusy individuals hope they can cram it into their overstuffed schedules like their membership to a health and fitness club (which the...
Can you imagine Jesus saying, Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that’s why! And if you don’t believe, then you’re going straight to hell! But isn’t that how we present him throug...
Being able to know and feel what Karl knows and feels… that no matter what, I am God’s, and God is mine… that we have a connection; we have a relationship. Faith in your life brings God in your life.
Was the identity of all non-Christians as offspring of the devil that allowed these acts in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, not in spite of Christianity, but because of it. Bartolomé,...
What is the most significant conversation you have every day? People would respond piously, Your conversation with God, of course. No, Lewis would reply. It’s the conversation you have with yourself b...
Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.