I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

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