Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

Jesus is what God looks like in sandals

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

Your face is engraved in my mind. I can’t erase it. I don’t want to. Because as much as I hate you, I love you. And I love you unforgettably.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

Don't send a man to the grocery store.

It's definitely evolved from where it started - for 'Treat Me Like Fire,' I wanted something extremely wild because I was going to be running through the woods and I wanted it really nappy and crazy.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.