I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!