Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

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

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

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.