To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.