The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

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.

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.