In The Absence Of Truth, Power Is

One Would Like To Believe That People Who Think Of Themselves As Devout Christians Would Also Behave In A Manner That Is In According With Christian Ethics. But Pastorally And Existentially, I Know That This Is Not The Case, And Never Has Been.

Politics Is Chiefly A Function Of Culture, At The Heart Of Culture Is Morality, And At The Heart Of Morality Is Religion.

I Do Believe That Those Who Compare The Religious Right To The Nazis Have Fallen Victim To Polemical Heat Prostration.

Determined Secularists View These As Residual Inconsistencies That They Have Not Yet Go Around To Extirpating And That May Not Be Worth Bothering About... Form The Secularist Perspective It May Be That The Essential Battles Have Been Won And Excessive Zeal In Pressing A Final Mopping-up Operation Might Only Excited Further Public Hostility.

Disguise Is Central To God's Way Of Dealing With Us Human Beings. Not Because God Is Playing Games With Us But Because The God Who Is Beyond Our Knowing Makes Himself Known In The Disguise Of What We Can Know. The Christian Word For This Is Revelation, And The Ultimate Revelation Came By Incarnation. ... God Is The Master Of Disguises, In Order That We Might See.