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

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

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?

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

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