I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each day is comic-what could be more comic than a human addressing the Ground of Being as an intimate? It's a kind of blasphemy that I dare because you have called for it, and that is pretty humorous, too.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.