Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.

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.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.