If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.