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'll be at Lambeth telling my story

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

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

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 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.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.