“Years ago the religious right kidnapped Jesus. They blindfolded him, bound and gagged him and currently hold him in a windowless room in the church basement. They make him sign confessions that he hates homosexuals, opposes gun control, backs all of America’s military adventures, loves free market capitalism, loathes taxation and thinks the poor are [...]

“Christianity argues that natural law ethics comes from God and is written on the human heart, which is why there is a measure of commonality on ethical norms across cultures.  Non-theists need a different explanation.” –from Doing the Right Thing

“If scripture is as authoritative and clear on essentials as biblicists say it is, then why can’t the Christian church—or even only biblicist churches—get it together and stay together, theologically and ecclessiologically?” –Christian Smith

“[I]n what sense does or can the Bible actually function as an instructive, issue-clarifying authority for the open-minded Bible believer who simply wants to know what the scriptures teach about gender roles, marriage relations, and the place of women in church ministry?  In actual practice, it does not and apparently cannot serve as such an [...]

“God’s law is written in two ways and two places:  Not only in the words of revelation, but in our being, for we are made in God’s image.  For a long time, many Christians neglected or even denied this insight because of the mistaken idea that if the image of God can be obscured by [...]