To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.