What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which is what Anglican liturgy does, just seems to me such a very complete and compelling thing.

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

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.