Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.