Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

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

Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

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