My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.