We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.