The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers who had conquered them: The Egyptians, the Persians...
The failure to understand the infinite depth of the human soul is often why people who are married have affairs. They stop exploring the person they married. They find somebody who appears more intere...
We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves.
What the gospel does is confront our version of our story with God’s version of our story. It is a brutally honest, exuberantly liberating story, and it is good news. It begins with the sure and certa...
What's disturbing, then, is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about hell here and now. As a Christian I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth: poverty, injus...
Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?
You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.
Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.
All of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.
Everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.
For a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere
Because if something is wrong with your God, if your God is loving one second and cruel the next, if your God will punish people for all of eternity for sins committed in a few short years, no amount...
Catherine of Aragon said,None get to God but through trouble.
Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they're big things.
Holism is when two plus two equals infinity.
I can’t find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions...
In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broad...
It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.
People aren’t static; they’re dynamic—endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change.
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