The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.

I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.