“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension,… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.” — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that we have… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“A good teacher must be content to be a sower rather than a reaper," he said. "Teachers must not expect to see immediate, specific,… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“. . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt. 11:28-30). When is… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“A sovereign, creative, truthful God is not threatened by our human attempts to describe and better to understand the nature and purposes of God.” — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.” — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“We may come singing 'Just As I Am,' but we will not stay by being our same old selves. The needs of the world… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image