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.

I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about.

I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

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

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

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.