If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
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.