The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.

Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.