I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.
In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.
When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.
If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'
If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
