The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.

Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.