[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.