Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

With 'The X Factor' I think the audiences have lost faith and trust in it so that's its problem. You want to be watching something real and dynamic and something you can trust and believe in.

I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.