Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

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.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

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

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

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.