American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.