If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile..

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith..

After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encoura….

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves..

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..

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

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….

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 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….

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

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

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

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

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….

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 ….