All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Not to decide is to decide.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.