I ponder these questions by taking seriously this ancient, ambiguous, and diverse Bible we have as well as honoring my humanity--my experiences, my reasoning, when and where I was born--and I try to get all these factors to talk to each other. That may ring a bell with some of you. I am echoing the so-called Wesleyan Quadrilateral. We are always processing God and faith not from a high place, but from the vantage point of our inescapable humanity--our reason, experience, tradition, and scripture. (The Episcopal Three-Legged Stool is similar, but it combines reason and experience.)