The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

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

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.

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.

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