My Job Is Not To

Pity Can Be Nearsighted And Condescending; Shared Suffering Can Be Dignifying And Life-changing.

There Are No Experts In The Company Of Jesus. We Are All Beginners, Necessarily Followers, Because We Don’t Know Where We Are Going.

Praying Puts Us At Risk Of Getting Involved In God's Conditions. Be Slow To Pray. Praying Most Often Doesn't Get Us What We Want But What God Wants, Something Quite At Variance With What We Conceive To Be In Our Best Interests.

Religion Is A Very Scary Thing, Because A Pastor Is In A Position Of Power. And If You Use That Power Badly, You Ruin People's Lives, And You Ruin Your Own Life.

The Moment The Organic Unity Of Belief And Behaviour Is Damaged In Any Way, We Are Incapable Of Living Out The Full Humanity For Which We Were Created.