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I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.

I have always had a deep connection with my faith, and I was fortunate to have been brought up in a Christian environment. My faith is a very important part of who I am.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

I'm not Christian. I didn't meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a 'Heavy Metal' comic.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.