If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

No one has the last word other than God.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.