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.

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so many times that it was just painful for him. He constantly had to go to Rome to explain his views.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.