I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.