I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

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.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

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

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

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