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. |
Not to decide is to decide. |
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. |
There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth. |
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. |