Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

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.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

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