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My use of laughter is my attempt to practice theology in a manner that refuses the attempt to manage the world. In short, my use of laughter is “an appropriate theological antidote to the Constantinian desire for control.”

— Stanley Hauerwas The Work of Theology (2015)

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The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

I do think, in spite of the considerable evidence to the contrary, that theology can and should be, in some of its modes, funny. Theology done right should make you laugh.

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We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Pacifism, therefore, is not just an attitude about war, but it entails the belief that God, through Jesus Christ, has inaugurated a history that frees all people from our assumption that we have no moral alternative to war.

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