There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.