Speaker: Kevin Boling
2,604 sermons
Debating Faith and Family
First up on the KTT Prg today, Edward Lee Pitts - Washington Bureau Chief for WORLD Mag. We will discuss two related articles he has recently written about immigration. On the second half of the program today, my guest will be Mary Eberstadt, author of the book (that releases today) entitled, "How The West Really Lost God". In this book, cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion in the Western world. The conventional wisdom is that the West first experienced religious decline, followed by the decline of the family. Eberstadt turns this standard account on its head. Marshalling an impressive array of research, from fascinating historical data on family decline in pre-Revolutionary France to contemporary popular culture both in the United States and Europe, Eberstadt shows that the reverse has also been true: the undermining of the family has further undermined Christianity itself. Mary Eberstadt is one of our nation’s leading cultural critics and religion scholars, and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Eberstadt served at the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under President Reagan. Eberstadt is a frequent media guest, and has written widely for magazines and newspapers, among them The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Weekly Standard, First Things, Commentary, and Policy Review. She was executive editor of the National Interest and managing editor of the Public Interest. Eberstadt is the author of several influential books including Adam and Eve after the Pill, Home-Alone America, and th
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