This is how God loves: The presence of a handful of innocent people are enough to preserve the whole.

Crime-and-punishment has been a relatively simple equation throughout history. Break a law, and you receive the due consequences.

Years back, a series of commercials promoted good banking practices by highlighting bad ones. In one spot a little girl is asked by a banker if she would like a pony.

A young man I was on a retreat with once told this story of prayer: "I was so angry at God because I had asked and asked him to help me stop doing drugs. And then before long I was getting high again.

We turn in prayer to the one who teaches us to pray.

We have forgotten how to pray. We have forgotten that there must be a time when we are silent so that we can hear what God wants to say to us.