We commit the fallacy of defining sexualities in terms of the sex act, because it is the easiest level to grasp . . . You can show a dozen guys murdering each other on TV, but you can't ever show two people making love. A naked blade is reckoned less obscene than a naked woman. I'm not looking for my virginity either. Each of us must also open all of our senses and experience the world.
Religion grows from the heart as much as from the head, and it cries out to fuse body and mind.
Faith, as a divinity school professor of mine used to insist, is an orientation of the whole personality, a total response. Beliefs can be expressed in propositional form, to which the adjectives 'true' and 'false' may be attached. Faith, by contrast, is the opposite of nihilism and despair. Having faith means that our lives hold together and make sense at some deep level, rather than seeming ultimately awry, askew, or absurd. Therefore, your religion is something you not only think about but also dance, sing, eat, paint, and sculpt.