(Life News) Americans may not agree on much, but they agree on this: we’re at a pivotal moment. Exactly how pivotal depends on who you ask. After all, our country’s had its share of challenges in its relatively young existence. We’ve survived a civil war, segregation, the Great Depression, two World Wars, presidential assassinations, natural disasters, national tragedies, terror attacks, a global pandemic, and so much more. Maybe that’s why so many people underestimate the gravity of this moment, Os Guinness says. But they shouldn’t.
“I wish people understood [this] moment,” the beloved intellectual told Joseph Backholm on the latest episode of “Outstanding.” “The whole of the West [is] in crisis,” he warned, calling it a “civilizational moment” for both the church and the American Republic. It’s different than what the divided nation faced under Abraham Lincoln, Guinness insisted. If radical Marxism prevails, “that’s as much a secession from the Republic as the South and its division from the North. We’re on the verge of America becoming unrecognizable,” and if we don’t address something as simple as the border crisis, the best-selling author wanted people to know, the country as we know it is “finished.” (Read More)
