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.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

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

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.