A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.

Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.

Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. “Jude Winslow, I presume.

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.