Peace is a deeper reality than violence.”p. 231

First of all, it’s friendship with God that makes possible friendship with one another in a manner that is not that we just like one another, but that were are joined by common judgments, by...

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is...

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is...

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

I do not put much stock in “believing in God.” The grammar of “belief” invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. “Belief” implies propositions about which you get...

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, “Let it be with me according to your word.

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does...