Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a co…

- Langdon Brown Gilkey

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

- Langdon Brown Gilkey

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravis…

- Langdon Brown Gilkey

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

- Langdon Brown Gilkey

The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also importa…

- Langdon Brown Gilkey