The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included.

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.