I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

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.

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.