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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

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

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

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

We are inspired only when we seek to be inspired. Then inspiration can be found in everyone and everything.

And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.

Is this love? Does love need to hurt this much? Or is this a forced kind of love that slaughters all involved?

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

I just write mechanical things.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'