Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility..

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world..

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and ben….

Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the ….

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is ret….

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neig….

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the p….

If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insu….

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a ….

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens..

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners..

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love..

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One canno….

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive….

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslim….

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justi….

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconc….

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life….

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice..

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich..

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen..