What “toast, boast, and oath” might you offer this January?

The journey toward inner truth is too taxing to be made solo.

I encouraged my students to question authority, especially my authority, because only rarely can we recognize our biases without help.

What’s your most memorable story about getting lost? What do you remember about finding your way home?

We all want to feel at home, somewhere, somehow....

Mental illness is a spiritual problem as well as a psychiatric one.

I believe in your grace and protection and cannot imagine them slipping through the cracks.

Sometimes love is simply letting someone else like what they like.

The stories remind us there is still and always joy in this world, but it usually comes right alongside the struggle.

When we feel overwhelmed, we gather to find a path, to find new ways forward.

The most life-giving coping strategy—for me—is to attune to a voice calmer and wiser than mine, and allow that seeking to be its own expression of faith.

I’m confident in our human ability to together muscle our way into renewing our world.

If we aren’t willing to ask the important, uncomfortable, and even scary questions, we won’t get to larger and deeper truths.

What I do know for sure is that hope matters. One of the best things we can do is to hold hope for someone when that person cannot hold it for themselves.

Who are you going to be, today? And tomorrow? Who are we all becoming, together?

It's hard to feel gratitude for something when you're focusing on what’s wrong with it.

I call the tall bush on my back patio “Burning Bush” because in autumn its leaves are a fiery red. All winter long I overlooked three uninhabited nests inside of it. For months and months I could have perceived—but didn’t—what was in plain sight. ...

"We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change."...

This is a story of in-the-middle for those wondering how their story ends.

May we find unexpected ways to remember where we came from and imagine where we may go next. May we find touchstones of our pasts, and may they become a foundation for the future.