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.

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.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

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

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

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

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