One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.

Until we start reading the Jesus story through the collective notion that the Christ offers us, I honestly think we miss much of the core message, and read it all in terms of individual salvation, and individual reward and punishment. Society will remain untouched.

Hope cannot be had by the individual if everything is corporately hopeless. It is hard to heal individuals when the whole thing is seen as unhealable.

Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with.

He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought.

Gary wondered, 'If God intentionally made us all different, why should everyone be expected to love God in the same way?

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.