The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.