While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

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

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.