We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Through history people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith too.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong I am inclined to agree with him.

Religious belief like history itself is a story that is always unfolding always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.