I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

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.

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.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.