America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.