“I flip a cognitive coin while reading Dr. Briggs' take on life, theology, science, and the conception of human life.”

“We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.”

“Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.”

“Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.”

“If I flip a coin, what are the chances I'll get head?”

“A new field of science was emerging: mathematical cognition, or the scientific inquiry into how the human brain gives rise to mathematics... the transition from mathematics to neuropsychology.”