I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

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?

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.