Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.

We may marvel. Yet I trust, When man seeketh to be just And to pity them that wander, God will raise him from the dust.

This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.

We all must try to be good.

The well-known passage in Micah 6:8 ('does the Lord require of you?') declares that justice and mercy are two foundational aspects of God's character... forgiveness is by no means as simple or expeditious as is often suggested; it is a complex and demanding matter. The question of forgiveness and compensation really should not be discussed apart from the question of justice.

What we do know is that followers of Jesus Christ will always want to remember that the true and righteous judgments of the Lord are applicable to every side of every conflict.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.