For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.

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

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

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.

the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

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

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