Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.