Where Does Intolerance Begin?

Our society wrestles with many passionate social movements, including pleas for tolerance. But the capacity to know the difference between tolerance and ...

All Talk, No Action

Integrity is like the weather: everybody talks about it but nobody knows what to do about it.

Wise Questioning

It is astonishing that any man can forebear enquiring seriously whether there is a just God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state ...

To Be a Spoke in the Wheel of State

There are three possible ways in which the church can act toward the state:

In the first place, it can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate ...

Social Justice vs. Personal Ethics

Social ethics must never be substituted for personal ethics. Crusading can easily become a dodge for facing up to one's lack of personal morality. ...

Making Justice Weak

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical. ... Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. ...

Why Send Them to Prison?

Why should small-time embezzlers, bad-check writers, and petty burglars be in prison when they ought to be working to pay back those they have wronged, ...

Righteousness Exalts a Nation

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Truth Will Tell

My husband Gene and I volunteered to help out on the early shift at a charity golf tournament. It was 6 a.m. when we left the house and the streets were ...

When No One Is Left to Speak

First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak ...