The Christian answer, that God created and loves us, seems much more solid, especially in face of the propensities of twentieth-century humans for killing each other. The churches need to recover a sense for how their engagement in the culture wars involves them in fundamental religious disagreements. They also need to understand what is at stake in that engagement in a concrete enough way to allow for adjudication of the arguments pro and con on specifically religious grounds. The more discussion turns in these two directions, the more I believe the merits of a progressive position are likely to become apparent in the church universal. The problem for Christian communities is that the culture wars move at a pace too quick to deliver adequately Christian speech.
Christians are yet to realize the problem modernity creates for Christian speech.
The challenge for Christians is finding ways of speaking that matter. We need greater clarity in acknowledging and resisting ways of speaking that confuse Christian identity. We also need greater insight in knowing and forming ways of speaking that promote Christian life. This is the crucial matter in the culture wars. For many Christians today, the culture wars are not just about race, gender, and class.