Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter Symphony is sublime and beautiful? There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - How do I know that two plus two equals four? There are different layers, different types of knowing.

To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

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

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.