Jesus is what God looks like in sandals

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.

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.

The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Time heals all wounds. Unless they're infected. Like gangrene. That shit'll kill you.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

I have been accused of never saying no.