Voice of the Day

"They did not think the world was getting better and better under its own steam–or even under the steady influence of God.... But neither did the believe that the world was getting worse and worse and that their task was to escape it altogether.... They believed that God was going to do for the whole cosmos what he had done for Jesus at Easter."

–N. T. Wright, speaking of the Early Chrisitians and their beliefs about the life to come in Surprised by Hope, 93.