What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood o…

- Allan Boesak

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather th…

- Allan Boesak

And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding

- Allan Boesak

The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serve…

- Allan Boesak

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

- Allan Boesak

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impre…

- Allan Boesak

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togeth…

- Allan Boesak

If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the col…

- Allan Boesak

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whats…

- Allan Boesak