Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.