Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.