“There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin.”

“Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.”

“After Jesus' fast, he began healing, rescuing, redeeming. The Spirit filled up the emptiness Jesus created, launching him into ministry. In some supernatural way the abstinence from food was the ca...”

“I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches.”

“While it is easy to become paralyzed by the world's suffering and the inequalities created by corruption and greed, we actually hold immense power for change, simply by virtue of our wealth and eco...”

“The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.”

“I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis th...”

“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.”

“Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate crea...”