I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.