Christians were instructed to serve others and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion and distorts both.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed and two others I'm working on.

Written poetry is worth reading once and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.