My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.