Let's try and fail because through failure you learn
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.
My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.