From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another. And to speak to each other with a sense that even if people don't convert, they are God's people, God loves them, and we do not make the judgment of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. I think that what we all have to do is leave judgment up to God. The Muslim community is very evangelistic, however what Muslims will not do is condemn Jews and Christians to Hell if in fact they do not accept Islam.

If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person