If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league?

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.