People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels you all into a binary either/or with all kinds of spin-offs. This is deeply unhealthy. The trouble is that the way the system is set up in order to get in and try to change it you have to be (a) a millionaire, (b) someone who can work inside the system long-term, (c) someone prepared to make deals and compromises... Which does rule out the vast majority of committed Christians.

Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.