Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.