You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

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.

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 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.