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

“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color...”

“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...”

“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...”

“I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and ot...”

“I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly le...”

“Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, f...”

“Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own...”

“I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into...”

“I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.”