Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.