Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.