A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

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

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.