All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.

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