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.

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.

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

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