In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.