“I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors....Jesus could have hung out in the high-end re...”

“God did not enter the world of our nostalgic, silent-night, snow-blanketed, peace-on-earth, suspended reality of Christmas. God slipped into the vulnerability of skin and entered our violent and di...”

“Church isnt perfect. Its practice.”

“What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather Gods ability to work through sinners.”

“There is a reason Mary is everywhere. I've seen her image all over the world, in cafs in Istanbul, on students' backpacks in Scotland, in a market stall in Jakarta, but I don't think her image is e...”

“We often behave as though Jesus is only interested in saving and loving a romanticized version of ourselves, or an idealized version of our mess of a world, and so we offer to him a version of our ...”

“As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that b...”

“Its important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your min...”

“Reason, Observation and Experience the Holy Trinity of Science have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This...”

“It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.”

“The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.”

“Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness...”

“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.”