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

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

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

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

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.