Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.