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.

Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

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.

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

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

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

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