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Saints cannot exist without a community
Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.
The courageous have fears that cowards never know.
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.
I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.
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.
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.