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...Chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs from 1992 to 2001. The NDI is a think tank that works to promote democracy abroad...
...Paul was my dad's most loyal guy. My dad thought the world of Paul. I think the world of Paul." - Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Ted Kennedy's youngest son, on Sept. 23 (CQPolitics...
...most of your resources are for pastors and others in the church who could have been teaching another kind of worldview all along. Why do you think they have failed to do that? The church has fallen into a therapeutic model. It believes its job is to make people happy and take care of their problems. It's a feel-good kind of Christianity. I don't think the job of the church is to make people happy. I think it's to make them holy...
...there ever been a time when you think religious people got the balance right by engaging without becoming entangled? Yes. What happened in 18th and 19th century England, with the Wesley Movement and with William Wilberforce, was ideal. Wilberforce and others formed hundreds of small societies for improving human welfare, preventing cruelty to animals, reforming poorhouses and prisons. And there were great Christian leaders in politics as well. In that period, Christians were not divided by political parties...
...block, is now the urban equivalent of a boxer's mouth, more gaps than teeth. Some of the surviving houses look as if the wrecker's ball is the only thing that could relieve their pain. On the adjacent business streets, commercial activity is so palpably absent you'd think a neutron bomb had been detonated - except the burned-out storefronts and bricked-over windows suggest that something physically destructive happened as well. (See the most important cars of all time...