“Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.”

“Jesus' willingness to accommodate Thomas' unbelief is a reminder that God can handle our doubt. And that the rationalist doesn't need to see, touch, or run a lab test in order to believe in the res...”

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

“The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the one that allows the biblical text to exalt Christ as the living Word over all creation...”

“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history of the world, were actually getting dumber it seems. The amou...”

“There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.”

“... the powerful changes that happen in the life of a disciple never come from the disciple working hard at doing anything. They come from arriving at a place where Jesus is everything, and we are ...”

“God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can”

“Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are to...”

“Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.”

“Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.”

“Live simply so others may simply live”

“most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonv...”

“Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no pe...”