I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

The seed of sin is in us when we are born.

I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.