Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

No future without forgiveness.

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.