Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious th

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

We are already and will remain all in the same boat.