God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.

To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.