A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology