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As I've traveled around the country speaking, one of the situations I've encountered is that very sincere and pious Orthodox Christians seem to be insecure about how to talk about their faith. They ask me "How do I share my faith and defend my Orthodox faith to the people around me?" It’s a good question, but…

Several years ago there was a song that was popular on Christian radio stations that still strikes me as a powerful reminder of a central truth: People Need the Lord. "Every day they pass me by, I can see it in their eyes. Empty people filled with care. Headed who knows where. On they go through…

A quote attributed to Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, sums up our challenges with missing the point: "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." The truth is, with all the ways we…

"Identity politics" is all the rage now. We take a few words or even feelings about ourselves and weave an entire identity out of our undisciplined passions and call it a "community." We segment the population into "rich" or "poor" "white" or "black" or "hispanix" or any other made-up group and then we dump folks…