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.

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

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

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.