Prayer Gets Us In On What God

Pastors Need To Know What's Going On In The World And What Has Been Going On For 4,000 Years. We Need A Way To Read Scripture Which Is Imaginative, Interpretive.

Church Is The Textured Context In Which We Grow Up In Christ To Maturity. But Church Is Difficult. Sooner Or Later, Though, If We Are Serious About Growing Up In Christ, We Have To Deal With Church. I Say Sooner.

You Don't Make Your Words True By Embellishing Them With Religious Lace. In Making Your Speech Sound More Religious, It Becomes Less True.

The Spirit Works Through Community. Somebody Will Have A Stupid, Screwy Idea. That's Okay. The Point Of Having Creeds And Confessions And Traditions Is To Keep Us In Touch With The Obvious Errors.

Neither The Adventure Of Goodness Nor The Pursuit Of Righteousness Gets Headlines.