A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture – academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here’s one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds – particularly if it sounds bad – recognize the pattern of defamation.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Now that it’s officially summer, here’s my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

But we shouldn’t be surprised when bad things happen, and we shouldn’t think of the United States as a holy land suddenly blemished.

On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

We are far from the end of our war against terrorism – most of which these days is Muslim in origin – but we may be at the end of the beginning.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children...

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient – philanthropic prudence is also needed.

We dated some, … The relationship has been close. Platonic. We go to dinner, I go to Washington for special things.

I don’t know the right number of immigrants to let in.

President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.

To talk about God as a Creator is not religion. Religion is man’s attempt to reach God. This is simply looking at the facts of the world around us. You can’t help but look at...

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

[Marvin Olasky, a conservative Christian writer who has been a strong Bush supporter, explained his sympathy for Miers.] Maybe it’s the judicial implications of her evangelical faith, unseen on the court in recent decades, …...

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you’re not working.

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.