The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.