The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

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

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

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

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