Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".

Words will build no walls.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

When I was in elementary school I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.