Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.
Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
