“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those...”

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great huma...”

“Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly...”

“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. Fo...”

“In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and...”

“The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has lik...”

“Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, h...”

“On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bo...”

“My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensi...”

“My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so...”

“In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and i...”

“The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding some...”