“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color...”

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great huma...”

“Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly...”

“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. Fo...”

“In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and...”

“The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has lik...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”