Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.