Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

One dog barks at something the rest bark at him.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.