Hope Is Much More Than A Mood.

Yes, I Was A Parish Priest For Five Years. I Was A Curate In A Large Working Class Parish In Bristol And The Vicar Of A Village In Kent.

The Rational Transparency And Beauty Of The Universe Are Surely Too Remarkable To Be Treated As Just Happy Accidents.

Quantum Theory Also Tells Us That The World Is Not Simply Objective; Somehow It's Something More Subtle Than That. In Some Sense It Is Veiled From Us, But It Has A Structure That We Can Understand.

When You Realize That The Laws Of Nature Must Be Incredibly Finely Tuned To Produce The Universe We See, That Conspires To Plant The Idea That The Universe Did Not Just Happen, But That There Must Be A Purpose Behind It.

Well, It's Because I Gladly Acknowledge Some Ideas That Are Part Of Process Theology, But Which I Think Are Not Tied To All The Details Of Process Thought, And Are Very Illuminating And Helpful.