Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.