It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.