We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.