Beethoven's String Quartets Express Pain

Compassion Is Not Feeling Sorry For Others. It's Not Soft. It Requires An Intellectual Effort.

Even Before 9/11 I Was Gripped By A Sense Of Dread: Our Lack Of Criticism About What We Were Doing In The Middle East - The Slagging Off Of A Whole Religious Tradition.

Fundamentalists Are Not Friends Of Democracy. And That Includes Your Fundamentalists In The United States.

Ironically, The First Thing That Appealed To Me About Islam Was Its Pluralism. The Fact That The Koran Praises All The Great Prophets Of The Past.

We Can't Say What God Is, And Until The Modern Period, Jewish, Christian, And Muslim Theologians In The Three God Religions All Knew That. They Insisted That We Have No Idea What We Meant When We Said That God Was Good, Or Wise, Or Intelligent.