Occupation: Poet Birth: June 14, 1950
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves..
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable..
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world..
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at ti….
The past is what the present is doing now..
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin ….
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness i….
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness.
I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discer….
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with on….
We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment th….
I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marr….
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality..
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collaps….
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian co….
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Wel….
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexua….
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God,….
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to….
It's a moral question..
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they hav….