In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

On 27 August 2007 Sullivan married his husband Aaron Tone in Provincetown Massachusetts. In a blog entry on 12 March 2009 Sullivan summarised his faith journey to date in this way:

Perhaps the institution dearest to me the Catholic church greeted the emergence of gay people in a way that never truly reflected the compassion of Jesus or the good faith arguments many of us offered as a way forward. On Israel
Sullivan states that he has "always been a Zionist".

Sullivan is a former editor of The New Republic and the author of five books. He has been a guest on national news and political commentary television shows in the United States and Europe. His focus is U.