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

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.

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

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

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Saints cannot exist without a community

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