“We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain.”

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral.

You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook.

As I’ve taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

If ‘everything happens for a reason,’ then every act of evil is ultimately God’s doing.

Jesus’ own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God’s ways and vision for us.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it’s not manly to take it to the mechanic.

Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.

Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.

As they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes.

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.