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.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

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

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

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.