“Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.”

“Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.”

“Jesus’ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately ‘lose’ – as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics – we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that if the Church allows itself to be tied up in strategies, into ‘winning’ people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the ‘other’.”