Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us human, so that we can give life away and give love away and not be grasping after trying to protect our own lives all the time? That's the way I see the Jesus story, and I think it's a powerful and profound story.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

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

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

Mother Nature is not sweet.