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

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.

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

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.

Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.