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.

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.

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

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

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

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.