If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

Lovers re-create the world.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.