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.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.

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

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.

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.

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