What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

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

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.