For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up determined to make a success of Brexit. I was surprised by how quickly I went to acceptance of the result, without passing through any of the prior stages of grief.

I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.