The essential fuel for all this cultural energy is that Israel has a sense of purpose. Its people understand why the state exists and why it needs to exist—that it is the indispensable homeland of the Jewish people. It survives and thrives for one overwhelming reason: because it wants to. Melanie Phillips

Accordingly, instead of holding the line for objectivity and reason, the church allowed itself to be drawn ever deeper into moral and cultural relativism, leading to such absurdities as the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, apologizing to the developing world for the spread of Christianity. Melanie Phillips