It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

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.

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

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

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.