What we give our attention to most defines us. What we give attention to defines our god.

The movie runs simple. An eleven year old, Riley, moves with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco. She does not like it one bit, and almost runs away by catching a bus back to Minnesota. The brilliance of Pixar’s latest movie is that we go on an adventure in Riley’s mind with her five core emotions to see her motivations. Watching it, I discovered an insight into a theological mystery about Jesus’ crucifixion.

When the church’s history of contemporary America is written, the question will be: Why has theology ceased to be a topic among the church community?

When John McCain commented on Donald Trump’s Mexican rhetoric and then there was a subsequent rise in the polls due to “stirring up the crazies,” Mr. Trump responded by questioning McCain’s real heroism as a POW in Vietnam

A man who refuses to love can never have faith in Jesus, for God is love. Without love, the church fails.

The true power of imagination is it can be used to drive us toward reality and others. Jesus' command about treating others as you would have them treat you is an ethic based on imagination. I have to imagine what it is like for the other in order to act.