I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.