The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.