I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.