Every Artist Is A Cannibal/every Poet Is

Sadly, I Do My Homework. I've A Soft Spot For The Boring Minutiae. I Read The Charter Of The United Nations Before Meeting With Kofi Annan. I Read The Meltzer Report, And Then I'll Read C. Fred Bergsten's Defense Of Institutions Like The World Bank And The I.m.f. It's Embarrassing To Admit.

My Understanding Of The Scriptures Has Been Made Simple By The Person Of Christ.

You See, Africa Makes A Fool Of Our Idea Of Justice. It Makes A Farce Of Our Idea Of Equality. It Mocks Our Pieties. It Doubts Our Concern. It Questions Our Commitment. Because There Is No Way We Can Look At What's Happening In Africa, And If We're Honest, Conclude That It Would Ever Be Allowed To Happen Anywhere Else.

Where You Live In The World Should Not Determine Whether You Live In The World.

Convictions, In The End, They Can Be Dangerous, But A World Without Them Is Just Kind Of An Awful Kind Of Gray, Amorphous Mass.