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

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

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.

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

The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

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.

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