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.

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

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

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

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.