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Writing in his book, The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, Yuval Levin observes, “Life in America is always getting better and worse at the same time.” He identifies nostalgia as a major barrier to finding unifying solutions for persistent problems. And he insists that we cannot simply turn the clock back to the 1950s or 1960s and once again enjoy the unity and prosperity of those post-war years.

Since World War II, Levin writes:

In our cultural, economic, political, and social life, this has been a trajectory of increasing individualism, diversity, dynamism, and liberalization. And it has come at the cost of dwindling solidarity, cohesion, stability, authority, and social order. . . . We have grown less conformist but more fragmented; more diverse but less unified; more dynamic but less secure.

Yuval Levin joins me for this episode of The Gospel Coalition podcast. Levin is the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the founder and editor of the journal National Affairs. He is a former White House and congressional staffer and a contributing editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard. We talked about religious liberty, what a resurgence of orthodoxy might look like, and the possibility that culture warriors may have focused too much on controlling institutions rather than building thriving subcultures.

Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?

In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.
But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.
To learn about the evidence for the historical reliability of the four Gospels, click below to access a FREE eBook of Can We Trust the Gospels? written by New Testament scholar Peter J. Williams.

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