We chat across fences with our Muslim neighbors while cutting the grass. Our Bible-believing children learn at schools alongside Hindu classmates. At the supermarket, we park next to vehicles emblazoned with Wicca symbols and scan headlines on glossy magazines about celebrities embracing the teachings of Scientology and Kabbalah.

Religion is important in America, without a doubt.

But as this country becomes increasingly more aware of other faith groups with ties to many world cultures, Christians in the U.S. find themselves in a new, uncomfortable spot. Where once we unapologetically proclaimed, “Jesus Is The Way!” a major study released recently suggests many believe that perhaps there are many paths to heaven, that Jesus is but one way. read more

This summer I have had more free time than I have had since I left college. The time has been filled with reading and thinking.

Today’s world is more complicated than at anytime in my life. The days of the Cold War were difficult, but less so than the current world where Middle Eastern issues become increasingly complex and where China is emerging as a consumer like the U.S. and Europe.

Half of the summer I have been optimistic that faith is rebounding and people are turning back to God. The other half I have been depressed because secular values are overwhelming even those seeking to know and follow God. I have been reminded of a poem by Matthew Arnold in the last decades of the 19th century. read more