Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.