Our Divided Nation
What is tearing this country apart is not merely politics. It is something far deeper, far older and far more consequential. We are witnessing a moral rupture. What we are experiencing is not primarily a contest between parties or platforms. It is a conflict between moral authorities. One vision holds that moral truth is received- revealed by God and preserved in Holy Scripture- while the other increasingly treats moral truth as constructed, fluid and subject to cultural reinvention. The consequences of this divergence now dominate nearly every major debate in our public life: marriage, sexuality, the santity of human life, the definition of family, human nature and even truth itself. The Bible warned us of this moment. " Who unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" the prophet Isaiah declared (5:20). This inversion is no longer theoretical; it is instituionalized. Lon...