For the vast majority of believers today, Scripture is a route to God but not necessarily the destination. |
I was wading waist deep in the freezing, raw sewage of Jerusalem in some quixotic attempt to discover how King David had captured his capital, |
It's a story that fails as history, but that's why it succeeds as scripture -- because it's elliptical, ... The story has the ability to be perpetually now. |
One of the reasons Abraham is an important figure in the world today is because he is not a saint, |
People can see in him what they want, |
The great religions were not born in isolation from one another; they cannot survive in isolation from one another. |
Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion |