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.

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

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."

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

In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.