I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

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.

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.

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

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.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

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.