“One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helpe...” — Stanley Hauerwas Quote

“One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.”

“I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.”

“The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.”

“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”

“In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc.”

“I think I'm better at triaging and recognizing that my job is not to have an opinion about every single new development in American politics.”