If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.
No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.
I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.