I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

God loved me before I actually was.