Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

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.

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.

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.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

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