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.

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

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

Saints cannot exist without a community

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 fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.