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.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.