Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.