Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is…

— Richard Holloway

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after…

— Richard Holloway

“We know you are going to be enthralled by the mystery of sexuality, which is hardly surprising since it is the energy…

— Richard Holloway

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to…

— Richard Holloway

“Hannah Arendt scorned this preoccupation with death and proposed a new symbolism that emphasized not the inevitability of our dying, but the…

— Richard Holloway

“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant…

— Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

— Richard Holloway

“All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and…

— Richard Holloway

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks…

— Richard Holloway

“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the…

— Richard Holloway

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

— Richard Holloway

There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and…

— Richard Holloway

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

— Richard Holloway

“One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system…

— Richard Holloway

“Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born…

— Richard Holloway

Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

— Richard Holloway

“In his lecture on Jesus, Brown meditated on the unlikely paradox that any institution could represent this man because institutions, by their…

— Richard Holloway

“This quarrel over the messianic status of Jesus within first-century Judaism had profound effects on Christianity and prompted it towards a fateful…

— Richard Holloway

“The best approach to religious codes that have become rigid and absolute is to acknowledge their arbitrariness and use them, if we…

— Richard Holloway

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

— Richard Holloway

“The real battle for Christians today is not Armageddon, it is the battle for a sensible approach to that ancient library of…

— Richard Holloway