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

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

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

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

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

You become like what you worship

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.