You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic..

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have ….

Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where I….

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics..

One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why ….

I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is t….

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christian….

No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult….

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas..

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism..

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding han….

Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of gener….

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul..

I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God….

I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy patrio….

The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there. The sort….

In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture ….

America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise o….

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways..

The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liber….

In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that, in certain ways, American Protestants ….