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

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.