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

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.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

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

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

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.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.