Harvey Cox

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.

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.

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.