Giving Is What Makes A Nation Great.

The Market Economy Is Deeply Congruent With The Values Set Out In The Hebrew Bible. Material Prosperity Is A Divine Blessing. Poverty Crushes The Spirit As Well As The Body, And Its Alleviation Is A Sacred Task. Work Is A Noble Calling.

The Test Of Faith Is Whether I Can Make Space For Difference. Can I Recognize God's Image In Someone Who Is Not In My Image, Who Language, Faith, Ideal, Are Different From Mine? If I Cannot, Then I Have Made God In My Image Instead Of Allowing Him To Remake Me In His.

Technology Gives Us Power, But It Does Not And Cannot Tell Us How To Use That Power. Thanks To Technology, We Can Instantly Communicate Across The World, But It Still Doesn't Help Us Know What To Say.

Governments Cannot Make Marriages Or Turn Feckless Individuals Into Responsible Citizens. That Needs Another Kind Of Change Agent.

Stabilizing The Euro Is One Thing, Healing The Culture That Surrounds It Is Another. A World In Which Material Values Are Everything And Spiritual Values Nothing Is Neither A Stable State Nor A Good Society. The Time Has Come For Us To Recover The Judeo-christian Ethic Of Human Dignity In The Image Of God.