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.

The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.

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.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.