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.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.