Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.