Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

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

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

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.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.