All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

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.

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

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

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.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .