An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

I will demonstrate that a major cause of our current cultural crisis consists of a worldview shift from a Judeo-Christian understanding of reality to a post-Christian one. Moreover, this shift itself expresses a growing anti-intellectualism in the church, resulting in the marginalization of Christianity in society — its lack of saltiness, if you wi

The historian Mary P. Ryan observes that revivalism provided a discourse for considering the sweeping economic and political changes that were underway without addressing the economic basis and social implications of the changes. While families were fractured by “the corrosive power of commerce,” Ryan notes that they were inclined not to “express c

It is a narrative of how some of America’s core values and assumptions and its reliance on market principles contradict and work against other esteemed values.

hat if the government revokes our tax-exemption? What if youth sports take over Sunday morning? What if non-Christians get to pray before city council meetings? The inherent fragility of our churches, ministries, and schools helps explain, at least in part, why so many Christians carry so much anxiety today, and why we’re conditioned to see a threa