“Hello, I’m Barbara Brown Taylor. I say things you’re not supposed to say.” It’s with these words that the “spiritual contrarian” [her words] welcomes you to her website. And one

“God says to you, ‘I have a dream. Please help me to realize it.’” In these few words, Archbishop Desmond Tutu invites the reader of his 2004 book to take up

“…our ideas of God are formed in one way or another from our human experience,” Leslie Stevenson affirms, “as all our ideas about anything surely are….”  This philosopher, who taught for

“Hillhurst has become a poster child for congregational renewal in The United Church of Canada,” editor David Wilson wrote in The United Church Observer in 2015. “…Pentland clearly has good intentions, but…good intentions

“Maybe once a generation, or once every few generations, someone is born with gifts literary and sacred in equal measure.” Frederick Buechner [pronounced Beek-ner] is such a person, the Chicago Tribune goes on