Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.