Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

May you uncover the wisdom that summons the answers – to all that you seek.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

I was painfully shy as a child.