"The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God; the more we learn about the cross in all its historical and theological dimensions, the more we discover about the One in whose image we are made and hence about our own vocation to be the cross-bearing people, the people in whose lives and service the living God is made known.
"And when therefore we speak of shaping our world, we do not–we dare not–simply treat the cross as the thing that saves us 'personally,' but which can be left behind when we get on with the job. The task of shaping our world is best understood as the redemptive task of bringing the achievement of the cross to bear on the world, and in that task the methods, as well as the message, must be cross-shaped through and through."
By far the most important step in any debate is defining the question. Sometimes Christians give the impression that the debate from Genesis 1-2 is about "evolutionism versus creationism". But that is the wrong question. Charles Hodge, arguing against Darwinism, said: 
William Law was an Anglican divine who started his career in the church by being thrown out of Cambridge for his Jacobitism. His ministry was primarily in Putney, where he influenced, inter alia, the Wesleys. After a decade or so, he retired to Kings Cliffe where he lived for some twenty years. His writings during this point became increasing mystical, perhaps due to an encounter with Jakob Boehme, the German mystic.
‘Greet one another with a holy kiss.’ This is the advice of the New Testament time and again. Perhaps the following analyses of kisses (to which I was pointed by 
