I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

U.S. leadership has been rooted not just in our own belief in American exceptionalism but in the faith of others around the world. By so wantonly discarding that principle, the Trump Administration has done incredible harm to the families they have separated through the state-sponsored child abuse that has been carried out in our name.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.