Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

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

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

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.

I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.