God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

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.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.