It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.

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