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.

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.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

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

The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

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.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.