The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.