SOMETHING DANGEROUS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA.
WE MUST CONFRONT IT.

 
 

Americans are alarmed about the moral condition of their society today. Many in the liberal half of America worry that the political right has been taken over by amoral forces that pretend to be righteous while indulging a lust for power and wealth. Many conservative Americans fear that America's moral integrity is being eroded by an "anything goes" culture that's fostered by contemporary liberalism.

Both these worries are well-founded. Each side of America's political and cultural divide is challenged to overcome its moral blindspot.

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"There are none

so blind as those

who will not see"

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Barack, You’ve Lost Your Way

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Recent Soap Box Articles:

What America Needs Now: A Prophetic Social Movement that Speaks Moral Truth to Amoral Power

The Concept of Evil:  Why It's Intellectually Valid and Politically and Spiritually Important

A Spiritual Void in Contemporary Liberalism Helped Open the Door to a Spiritual Con Job from the Right.

By Their Fruits—How the Pattern that Rulers Imprint on their Domain Reveals the Spirit that Animates Them

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