"We are willing to worship a God only if God makes us safe. Thus you get the silly question, How does a good God let b…"

"Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business o…"

"We must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should …"

"Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about."

"One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is…"

"John Howard Yoder makes the striking observation that after the Constantinian shift the meaning of the word "Christia…"

"Jesus's poverty has made it possible for a people to exist who can live dispossessed of possessions. To be poor does …"

"Ralph Wood argues quite persuasively that the Christian vision of the world is fundamentally comic. Drawing on the in…"

"I do think, in spite of the considerable evidence to the contrary, that theology can and should be, in some of its mo…"

"Huebner observes that my use of laugher is my attempt to practice theology in a manner that refuses the attempt to ma…"