I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.

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.