There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Not to decide is to decide.

We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.