Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.