Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

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

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.