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

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.

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!

It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.