Birth: 1945
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 pers….
The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessin….
Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before..
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.….
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, uncertain….
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to….
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts..
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is….
To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own..
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning..
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..
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "draw….
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….
the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we liste….
For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringin….
To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered..
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action..
Lovers re-create the world..
God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature..