Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.