I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

Rain makes the night -- and us -- smaller, softer, more forthright.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

Life NEVER slows down.

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.