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.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.

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

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.