Render the things of Caesar unto Caesar, and the things of God unto God "Great temptation consists in the identification of Christianity...

* The doctrine of the Trinity is not mysterious. The doctrine simply concedes, as honestly and candidly as it can, the fact that God is...

"When, indeed, the Holy Spirit saw that the human race was guided only with difficulty toward virtue, and that, because of our...

He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. Eph. 4.10 RSV

"I had studied the Psalms, form, rhythm, content, historical background, as they were sung from age to age, in liturgical harmony, of joy...

"The man in whom intolerance reaches the point of flaring up, the point of fanaticism, is like a jealous person: he sees everywhere only...

whatever I said then here I am it was too much to take in woe woe woe now I remember high and lifted up nothing but the pining look but...

Craig Keen argues that the logic of crucifixion/resurrection stands over against the logic of cause-effect: Causation is a subcategory...

"By his obedience to the Father’s will even to the point of death, Christ leads his human nature to the perfect renunciation of every...

"The church understands itself as a community sent into the world to speak there a certain message. But since the church is a real...

"Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes." Job 2.8 "Christ is a shard of glass in your gut." Christian...

The Gospel according to Hosea: God's love wounds God's love can be wounded God's love, wounded, heals the wounding The Gospel according...

"Any number of things in our lives are borne along and done without being scrutinized. There is no avoiding this, and this is why we are...

"The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what...

"Prayer should encompass the full range of personal addresses. None of the forms of address we use to each other need or should be...

“A tradition is an act of forgiveness.” —Charles Mathewes "An authentic tradition can be distinguished from an ideology by its capacity...