... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who's going to hell and who's going to heaven and uh, a lot of times Christians get into this argument by saying 'we have the only way to heaven.' And uh, people often ask me what do I think is the way to heaven. I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus' coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.