The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

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

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.