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.

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

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.