The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.