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You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. - PROVERBS 11:22

Even here, in the dark, God is busy making all things new.

Martha certainly wasn't the first and she won't be the last to dismiss someone else's encounter with God because it didn't fit the mold.

I am convinced that what drives most people away from Christianity is not the cost of discipleship but rather the cost of false fundamentals.

I think Paul would roll over in his grave if he knew we were turning his letters into torah. - F. F. BRUCE

Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging symbols unless our lives have inspired the world to ask.

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

Basically my relationship with evangelicalism is like a Taylor Swift song set to repeat.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

Faith," she says, "is a catch-and-release sport. And standing at the altar receiving the bread and wine is the release part.

People bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs.18

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

It's strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short by his crucifixion.

Philip got out of God's way. He remembered that what makes the gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

But sometimes I think what the church needs most is to recover some of its weird.

THE FIRST THING THE WORLD KNEW ABOUT CHRISTIANS was that they ate together.

In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality ...

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you've made too much of it, to remember it doesn't define you.

To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.

Doubt is the mechanism by which faith evolves.

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

So why do our churches feel more like country clubs than AA?

God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

All in all, the Song of Songs struck me as surprisingly liberating this time around.

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels (13:2 NKJV).

We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.

To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.

For the children of Israel, the essence of religion was experiencing God to the fullest during this lifetime, not merely preparing for the next.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.

Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the worst and smirked when I found it.

A woman only loses herself when she stops looking, that no role is too confining or too grand for a woman of valor.

I am writing because sometimes we are closer to the truth in our vulnerability than in our safe certainties,

The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

Poems were never meant to be forced into commands.

That's when I realize that if anyone's an oxymoron, it's me. Or maybe it's anyone who claims to follow Jesus.

Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

Marriage is a relationship that is made holy, or sacramental, when it reflects the life-giving, self-sacrificing love of Jesus.

I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Faith's not about finding the right bush. It's about taking off your shoes.

Isn't it a little suspicious that the only true religion is the one with which we happened to grow up?

Some Christians are more offended by the idea of everyone going to heaven than by the idea of everyone going to hell.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine.