We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.