Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

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

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

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

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

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