The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life..

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end..

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth..

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our dec….

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America ….

"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricte….

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a ….

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is ….

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participa….

We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer….

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back..

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating..

Not to decide is to decide..

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power..

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world..

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality..

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . ..

Your reach should always exceed your grasp..

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along..