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.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

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

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.

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

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

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