The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

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

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.

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

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

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

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