The band really adds something to our lives.

There's never a dull moment in the Episcopal Church these days.

Yes, there's a lot of fear, but I happen to believe the love of God can overcome that.

What we really need to do is hang together, as we have in this convention through this difficult time, and find a way through this.

If the school at the time had done its job correctly and had followed the federal guidelines set up to protect students from campus crime, ... might have been able to enjoy her time as a young coed without the suit looming over her head.

What needs to happen is people of all backgrounds need to unite and focus instead on helping bring supplies to the people in need, ... Hurricane Katrina did not discriminate in its path of destruction, and neither does God's love.

The people leading the split claim they are representing people in the pews, but these are the same people who in 1954 would split the church over our support of Brown v. Board of Education and who would have split the church in 1976 over the issue of women's ordination. The issue now is gays and lesbians -- it's all part of the same struggle.

When we started this, we were true amateurs.

I thought she was very strong.