Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

When we baptize, we lower people into the water, and then bring them back up out of the water. The water signifies death; being raised up out of it signifies life. Lowered like Christ in his death, raised like Christ in his life.

who has walked among us and continues to sustain everything with his love and power and grace and energy?

That’s why wealth is so dangerous: if you’re not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.

Our eschatology shapes our ethics. Eschatology is about last things. Ethics are about how you live.

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

When people use the word “Jesus,” then, it’s important for us to ask who they’re talking about. Are they referring to a token of tribal membership, a tamed, domesticated Jesus who waves

In the stories about Jesus a lot of people, including his own family, are uncertain about exactly who Jesus is and what

he’s up to—except demons, who know exactly who he is and what’s he doing.

the fate of billions of people, not totally great. Sort of great. A little great.

The ancient sages said the words of the sacred text were black letters on a white page—there’s all that white space, waiting to be filled with our responses and discussions and debates and opinions and longings and desires and wisdom and insights.