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

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

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.

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

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

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

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