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

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

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

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.

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.