Democracy works when people claim it as their own.

There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and….

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. W….

The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of ….

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. Se….

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limite….

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous..

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation..

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page..

The delusional is no longer marginal..

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that st….

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the he….

If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. Th….

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket..

I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come..

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides ….

When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter Jen….

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom..

The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well….

Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice ….

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope..