The Christian Century

“These women are a puzzle hidden in plain sight.”

“It's the nature of the gospel to upend settled views.”

“What saves us is learning how to love, even to the point of death.”

“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”

“It comes down to human solidarity. Another name for solidarity is love.”

“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”

“It’s not that Southerners don’t get racial issues. We just don’t get them right.”

“My novel is just one small part of a conversation that can’t be silenced.”

“When I was nine or ten, I decided I needed to read the King James Bible.”

“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”

“No one is born with racist ideas. People consume them, as others produce them to justify racist policies.”

“My workshops are not designed to create poets. I am using poetry as a catalyst.”

“Religious vocation sits very uneasily with individual self-advancement.”

“If you want to make a room full of liberal, compassionate people turn on you, talk about God in an unironic way.”