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

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

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.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.