I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

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

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.