Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.