Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone.

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.