I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Pride does not listen. It knows.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me isyour absence, Alaric

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Freedom is not just declared it is exercised.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.