We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.

Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.