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....

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.

Can I do it again? Do I even dare? Do I have the strength? Because the cradle might be empty—again.

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.

an original retelling Daedalus was a brilliant inventor, and he had made a career, even a legend of himself for being able to create the seemingly impossible. So when he decided to escape from his tower prison by flying over the ocean like a bird, his son, Icarus, had no doubt he would do it. It...

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

In every person we meet, especially those who cause us discomfort, we find an opportunity for us to grow, to learn, to go further along the path of transformation that is our purpose in life. Every single one is our teacher. May the next week bring you many such moments of meeting that help you...

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.

Gracious God, We are not supposed to talk about hearing voices in our head. That’s how rumors get started. But there’s a voice, a familiar stranger, that we can’t seem to turn down or turn off. One that says we’re a mess, a mistake, a fool, a fraud. That voice says everyone else has it...

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.