The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.