Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

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

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.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality