Quotes from Robin R. Meyers

It is a "terrible trivialization," Crossan writes, "to imagine that all Jesus' followers lost their faith on Good Friday and had it restored by apparitions on Easter Sunday.

Jesus did not come to die, rendering his life and teaching secondary. He died because of his life and teachings.

Preaching is, after all, an audacious and dangerous act.

The good life is thereby widely confused with unrestrained indulgence made possible by nonempathetic self-absorption.

Augustine said, "The soul makes war with the body," but Meister Eckhart said, "The soul loves the body.

Faith as assensus is "relatively impotent, relatively powerless. You can believe all the right things and still be in bondage.

How can our faith become biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant?

Not all preaching can be a healing balm. If we are true to the gospel, some of it will disturb, disorient, and even distress listeners.

What is the proper object of our worship, and what would it take to make Christianity compelling, even irresistible, again?" How can our faith become biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant?

religion at its best should be biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant.

Today, worshipers of Christ agree to believe things about him in order to receive benefits promised by the institution, not by Jesus.

Christianity as a belief system requires nothing but acquiescence. Christianity as a way of life, as a path to follow, requires a second birth, the conquest of ego, and new eyes with which to see the world. It is no wonder that we have preferred to be saved.

we live by the ethical force of our mutual covenants, and society itself is made possible by voluntary compliance with the unenforceable.