The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

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.

I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending on this supernatural God up in the sky; I want us to recognize that God is part of who we are and that we have to live out the meaning of God with other people. That means we must live in mutual respect and interdependence; it means we have to limit our own desires in order for the body politic to survive.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

[Jew] didn't believe anything good could come out of a Jewish study. So, what has happened is anti-Semitism has cost the Jews their lives and their property. It's also cost the Christians the ability to read the old gospels, which are deeply, deeply Jewish, and to bring that out is a pretty exciting thing. I'm having a wonderful time with that. I'm just not near ready to do much with it.