It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

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.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.