Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

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