“As we begin our study of Genesis 1 then, we must be aware of the danger that lurks when we impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture. This was God's design and we ignore it at our peril.”
“Many of Paul’s friends would have assured him that the tendency to misuse the freedom of the Spirit as an excuse for enthusiastic licence could be checked only by a stiff dose of law. But Paul could not agree: the principle of law was so completely opposed to spiritual freedom that it could never be enlisted in defence of that freedom: nothing was more certainly calculated to kill true freedom. The freedom of the Spirit was the antidote alike to legal bondage and unrestrained licence.”
Source: Epistle to the Galatians
“Through love, Paul said, you should make yourselves slaves to one another. Thus freedom and slavery are not simply mutually exclusive terms; they stand in the closest possible relationship to one another and can only be adequately defined in terms of object and goal: what we are slave to and what we are free for.”
“God is the God of the entire cosmos; God has to do with every creature, and every creature has to do with God, whether they recognize it or not.”
Source: God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation
“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them prior to the development of specific ideas about creation.”
Source: God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation
“[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.”
Source: God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation
“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the "new" into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity.”
Source: God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation
“[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.”
Source: God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation
“No one can claim to be culturally literate without an understanding of the Bible, since it has influenced, directly or indirectly, nearly all of Western literature and art.”
Source: Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals
“In this Age of Awakening, millions of people can move into Spiritual Enlightenment.
Wouldn’t you prefer to be one of them?”
Source: Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day