We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.

Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.

One's attitude affects altitude, and the degree of our mental elevation gives measurable evidence of just how much we can defy the pull on the soul subject to invisible laws of gravitation...

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.