I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And I've come to believe that we're living at a critical time when the American Dream is in jeopardy and this American Era which began after World War II might be winding down.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

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.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

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