We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

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

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.