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.

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.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

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.

The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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.