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

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 complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

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