Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.

Failure is temporary but hope is forever.

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.