Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.