I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!