We need to see the economy in human terms.

We need ritual. All of us.

We must remain committed to serve the vulnerable.

We must intentionally live and act in hope in order to move into the unknown.

The order reestablishes the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a 20-year-old initiative first put in place by President George W. Bush.

In a divided midnight vote Feb. 11, the justices upheld a lower court's ruling that Willie Smith III's pastor should be with him in the execution chamber, which the state opposed.