Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed to become secretaries. That's the way they entered the work force. Then we began to educate them because they had to be educated. But it wasn't until after World War II that most of the great universities of this country became coeducational.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

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

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.

When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.