The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

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

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

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