Is the future of our congregations tied to the fate of the family? Professor W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia is sure that this is so, and his research and analysis is impossible to ignore. In his essay, “As the Family Goes,” published in First Things, Wilcox argues that the future of America’s Christian congregations will “rise and fall with the fortunes of the intact, married family.”

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I hesitate to cheer for cultural transformation, though not because I like the world just the way it is. Hardly. I read the paper this morning. I hesitate, though not because I don’t believe that the church impacts the world. It has impacted the world and will continue to do so. I hesitate because I think the goal of transforming our city, our culture, or our world can lead to little good.

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Social justice is sexy right now, going green is the new black, ‘the documentary’ is now competing with ‘the summer blockbuster’, and Che Guevara’s image (long, a staple in the dorm-rooms of sophomore sociology majors) is now a ‘fave’ among grade-school fashionista’s….

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