To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.

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.

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.

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.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.