The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.