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

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that he's a Manchurian Candidate. He simply subscribes to an ideology that thinks it would be good for America to have a diminished economy and a diminished role in the world. In other words, Obama is all about what he perceives as global justice.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.