In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death.

It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

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.

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

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

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.