Every now and then, a convergence of similarly noteworthy news events highlights something we have already known but perhaps not brought forth for much reflection. We live in a culture of increasingly uncivil discourse. I have noticed this on the highly politicized fringes of the church, and have assumed that many Christians have simply taken their cues from the culture.

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I recently heard an economist make the remark that because the world is becoming increasingly secular, it will be harder and harder for Christians to be the church (to which she claimed membership).  Perhaps immersion in her own field has not provided time to explore much recent research and writing about contemporary religious belief that call into question the “Death of God” (it’s back!) assumptions about modernity.

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Students and commentators of our time in history, a cultural moment often referred to as postmodernism, know that the spirit of this age lies largely in the rejection of objective claims to knowledge, a dismissal of the notion that there are universal truths external to the self. Postmodernism rejects the Enlightenment ideal of rational inquiry and a common metanarrative within which all humanity participates. There is simply your truth and your story, and then there is mine. Many discerning voices have pointed out (entirely correct in my view) that postmodernism is less a philosophy than a mood. Feelings, intuitions and personal desires are the paramount arbiters of moral questions.

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