Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.