| Dear Arthur,
I turned 60 recently, and it seems the older I get, the more often I hear that a friend or an acquaintance has been diagnosed with a serious illness.
Today, I’ve got heartbreaking news concerning a sickness, but it’s not about a friend; it’s about our beloved country.
America, once the light of liberty among nations, is now in the throes of a late-stage moral sickness that is spreading and growing daily.
And I’m not the only one convinced that if this nation is to survive, American Christians must wake up and speak the truth.
Author Eric Metaxas introduces his new book titled Letter to the American Church with these words: “I have written this book because I am convinced that the American Church is at an impossible and almost unbearable inflection point.”
In a recent interview, he said the thesis of his new book is “the silence of the American church today on a host of issues is precisely similar to the silence of the German church in the 1930s.” And that silence, Metaxas said, led to “hell on earth.”
You may remember that Metaxas authored Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, the true story of the German pastor who challenged the Nazi regime.
I could offer many examples why I believe America’s social and moral culture is reaching a new low, but here’s one you may not have heard.
The 2022 midterm elections saw the highest voter turnout among younger Americans (ages 18-29) in almost 30 years. However, this group split for leftist, “progressive” candidates by an almost two-to-one margin. Exit polling from Tufts University found that this younger demographic was “the only age group in which a strong majority supported” so-called progressives.
These young people are more likely to support socialist and big-government policies, the climate-change narrative, the LGBTQ movement, and other extremely liberal ideologies. They are also less likely to attend church, which is not surprising. According to Barna Group, for example, the percentage of Gen Z youth (born between 1997-2012) who identify as atheists is double that of the U.S. population who identify as atheists.
That comes as no surprise because so many of our young people have been brainwashed. Consider:
▶ Many of our kids have endured years of woke education in the nation’s public school system followed by more years of cultural Marxism in American colleges and universities.
▶ Corporations that provide us everything from cereal to cell phones are fully invested in promoting godlessness.
▶ Entertainment outlets, including once family-friendly companies such as Disney, have been fervently propagandizing our kids in progressivism.
▶ Social media giants undermine cultural norms and propagate globalist, secular ideals to our youth.
All that to say, even if Christians wake up and mobilize a strong resistance against the godless progressives, we’re in for a long and difficult David-versus-Goliath fight.
Are you ready? We are.
For over 45 years, AFA has used every ounce of energy and every resource at our disposal to rally Christians across the nation to push back against the advancement of godless progressivism. We remain unflinching in that effort.
But we need your prayers, financial support, and involvement to continue. Nothing less than the future of America is at stake. That’s why I don’t hesitate to ask you to make AFA a priority in your giving and your prayers.
 And in return, we want to help equip your family to honor God in the midst of an increasingly hostile culture. One way we do that is through our original AFA Cultural Institute video series.
So, in appreciation for your generous gift and faithfulness to AFA, I’d like to send you a new Cultural Institute episode titled Seven Checkpoints on the Road to Financial Freedom with Rob West. Rob hosts the nationally syndicated radio program Faith and Finance with Rob West heard on American Family Radio.
I know this new Cultural Institute video will encourage strong biblical stewardship and inspire greater faith and freedom for your family. In fact, faith, freedom, and family are critical touchstones in all of AFA’s work. |
