There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"

What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.

There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"

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

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.