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.

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.

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.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

Travelers should only read after dark.

In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.