My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

The Israelis have not been willing to take the crucial step, and that is to withdraw from the Palestinian territory, the West Bank. And this is a crucial point and Israel has not only kept increasing the settlements in number, but have built highways among all the settlements from which the Palestinians are now excluded.

The first week or day that Obama was in office, he made it clear that peace in the Middle East would be a high priority for him. And his choice of a special envoy, George Mitchell, compared to the previous special envoys chosen, is remarkable.

The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.