[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

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

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

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.