From psychologists to social workers, and politicians on both sides of the partisan aisle, many of those whose immersion in the behavioral sciences has itself laid the foundation for the crisis are now employing the same methods but coming to vastly different conclusions.
Individualism is out, community is in.
Even if situation comedies have become the occasion for public discourse on this subject of momentous significance, we can take some delight in the fact that people are waking up and smelling the coffee. If political and moral solutions were sufficient to save the American family, then surely the evangelical movement could have been in the position just now to point the way forward. But divorce and child abuse are as common in evangelical Christian as in non-Christian households, pointing up the deeper spiritual crisis. Readers familiar with modernReformation will not be surprised at the thesis that every crisis in the church is a symptom of the unraveling of God-centered faith and practice, worship and life. In this issue, then, we will be looking for the biblical foundations for the Christian family and for those fed on a steady diet of moralism and pop-psychology, it will bear a noticeably different set of emphases.