If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.