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

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.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Not to decide is to decide.

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

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