If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

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

I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also hear the question: If not us, then who? And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is?

...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide. Either you're going to be an academic or you're going to be a pastor. You can't be both." I remember thinking, Rats! I want to be both! Why are you telling me I can't do these two things?And so I have kind of oscillated to and always wanted to do both.