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without wondering what it might mean to say that the crucified and risen Jesus was the king of whom Psalm 2 had spoken.

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honor elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them.

Forgiveness doesn't mean "I didn't really mind" or "it didn't really matter.

The heritage mattered, but the hope was all-important—hope for a new world, for the One God to become king at last.

The point about Philippi being a colony of Rome was not that the citizens would go back to Rome one day, but that (so it was hoped) they would bring the benefits of Roman civilization to Philippi.

the wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike.

myth" in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense "historical" and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held beliefs of the community that tells it.

hope it is clear, in fact, that this task of telling people about Jesus remains vital.

The rules of charity and conscience are there, not to nail down a one-size-fits-all rule-book but precisely to enable mutual respect and shared worship in the absence of such a thing.

The much-discussed contemporary phenomenon of cultural and theological relativism is itself in this sense simply the dark side of positivism.

Some people, including some who wanted to think of themselves as followers of Jesus, took exactly that line. We can watch the process taking place in the so-called Gnostic gospels (books like the Gospel of Thomas).

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

What those women do in the name of literature. It gives reading a bad name.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on. She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?" "Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know.

A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.

Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.

Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael

Excuse me. I think you must've accidentally used the wrong pronoun." The growl that rumbled up out of his chest was loud enough to rattle the water glass on the bedside table. "Fine, you can stand in the corner and cheer while I kill him.

If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.