In The Fullness Of Time, I Suspect

A Globalized World Is By Now A Familiar Fact Of Life. Building Walls Or Moats May Sound Appealing, But The Future Belongs To Those Who Tend To Their People And Then Boldly Engage The Rest Of The World, Near And Far.

The Traditional Religious Right's Failure To Restore Public-school Prayer Or Pass An Antiabortion Constitutional Amendment Has Likely Helped Fuel The Spread Of The More Extreme Dominionist School.

I Believe That My Children, Who Are Young, Will Look Back On The Early Years Of The 21st Century In Rather The Same Way I Look Back On The Middle Of The 20th: As A Time When Seemingly Respectable People Supported Discrimination Against Americans Simply Because Those Americans Were Different From Themselves.

As Crucial As Religion Has Been And Is To The Life Of The Nation, America's Unifying Force Has Never Been A Specific Faith, But A Commitment To Freedom - Not Least Freedom Of Conscience.

An Unexamined Faith Is Not Worth Having, For Fundamentalism And Uncritical Certitude Entail The Rejection Of One Of The Great Human Gifts: That Of Free Will, Of The Liberty To Make Up Our Own Minds Based On Evidence And Tradition And Reason.