If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.