"An abstinence-until- marriage program is not only irresponsible, it's really inhumane."
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Ca.), at July's International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. Meanwhile, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni told conferees that abstinence was the key in reducing his country's infection rate from 22 percent in 1992 to 7 percent in 2002.
"It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find somebody in the audience who is a Republican or a fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment."
Singer Linda Ronstadt
"It was a shock for me to see how they came up to me to ask for my help. I had to explain to them that I was only an actor and wasn't really the son of God."
Actor James Caviezel, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, on being asked to heal the sick during a tour in Veracruz, Mexico.
"It applies equally to far-right evangelical Christians as to extremists in the Islamic faith."
British Home Secretary David Blunkett, on a proposed law banning "religious hatred." The Evangelical Alliance called the plan "counterproductive."
While we pray for peace, we need moral clarity about this war.
As my doubts about his teachings grew, so did a secret fascination with Jesus.
Christian artists work at the intersection of music and climate change.
