If we take friendship to mean the love we have with others, and especially the love we have with the Other, God himself, as our first and final Friend, the aphorism is transfigured into a truism.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your ...

My view is this: I don’t think God is love. I think Love is God. When I posted this view online to see what people thought about it I was asked, “What’s the difference?” My answer was that ...

I really appreciated the writers' quotes you included in ... of being present for many of the God Squad invocations. I just read your column of "LOVE' and I would like to add one more — John ...

That's the kind of love experienced by people who've had near-death experiences. They report being in the presence of God. John Burke, the Texas-based bestselling author of "Imagine Heaven" and ...