I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.

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

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

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