Conservative Roman Catholicism and evangelical fundamentalists are growing, ... Hysterical people are seeking security.

Rachael Kohn's book 'The New Believers' provides a mirror into which every organized religious tradition should be compelled to look. She points to hope not fear, to openness not repression. The spiritual side of human life is far from dead in this 21st century but many forms of institutional religious life are so clearly in the last stages of rigor mortis. Rachael Kohn offers to those who have the eyes to see a new pathway into a religious future that is real. It might be religion's last chance.

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.