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

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

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

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me, it was reading about how the Catholic Church wrestled with itself in the 1960s. Pope John XXIII set Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions - in motion. It changed the relationship between Jews and Catholics. Today, Jews and Catholics meet as friends. If you can do that, after the longest history of hatred the world has known, that empowers you as a Jew or a Muslim to wrestle with your faith.