No single person can be trusted to wield power; therefore, power must be shared among many and policed by a legal system of checks and balances.

“Each of the models brings out certain important and necessary points, but any model used in isolation will lead to distortions because each model exhibits only a particular reality” of the child of God and disciple of Jesus Christ who was Avery Dulles.

Who do we mean when we say “the church”?

We won’t always get it right, but we’d rather lose than lie.

We are not the indispensable nation. We never were. But a shared sense of national purpose is indispensable.

In the end, despite my anger, my sorrow, my sinfulness and the sins of others, I stay because I do care.