The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.