There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.