It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being drawn toward. Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.

But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply inside myself. Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely outside myself.