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

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

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

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

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

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.