heather choate davis

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel

Silence my soul, these trees are prayers. I ask the tree, “Tell me about God”; then it blossomed. —Rabindranath Tagore

Hope is Alive

Some of you may follow this blog because you like my books, or have heard me speak, or like to hear God woven into the culture in a way that sparks something in you. What you may not know is that, in the past year, I’ve become involved with some church planting/replanting work here inContinue reading “Hope is Alive”

Faith is….

“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.” Frederick Buechner

They Are Not Commandments

Sometimes we lose sight of the big picture because we get tripped up in the details. So it is with the story of Moses, and, in particular, Moses on the mountaintop receiving the ten commandments. This is the first deception, the word “commandment.” Because nowhere in the Bible, in any translation, are they actually calledContinue reading “They Are Not Commandments”