Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

God has no other hands than ours.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.