Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.