Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.