We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

The Lone Ranger is a pagan child. If I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling 'em.

He mounted the board in roughly the same manner as a walrus wound mount a balance beam.

Briefly, I tried to imitate her. But, I had only the form, not the substance.

Because outside of God's shadow I was just a gaudy plastic float filled with stubborn air, drifting off like a blind Jonah in search of Plan B, manipulating circumstances and wondering why I kept waking up in my very own Tarshish.

But in God's shadow I had been dazzled by the detour, amazed at the fraternity, and flabbergasted by the depth that comes from simplicity, from serving in a village that was shabby, green, and pulsing with life.