To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.