Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.

The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

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

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.