To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.