All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.
To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that is the thing that no longer makes me want to be a Christian.
