Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.