If you’re like me, you regularly bemoan the troubling signs of America’s demise; Hollywood “values”, D.C. corruption, the deconstruction of the family, unethical corporate and personal behavior, declining prosperity and fewer opportunities for a better life. Some days it’s not hard to believe that America is headed for the dustbin of history, along with the rest of Western Civilization.
 
We’re usually preoccupied with day-to-day living though, and rarely have time to step back and consider, and diagnose the real “disease” that’s afflicting us. Yet recognizing and understanding the cause of our decline is crucial to recovering this once-great Republic; the Shining City on a Hill. What we need to be aware of are competing worldviews; the way they impact every facet of our lives, how each is now vying for supremacy, and how easy it is to get sucked into following a false one. [For instance, progressive ideology – leaving a massive trail of destruction in the wake of its race toward an earthly utopia.]
 
Below is a recent interview (audio clip) of Mark Steyn, by Chuck Colson (Breakpoint & Prison Fellowship), discussing Steyns’ new book: “After America.” They explore the problems and challenges facing our society and discuss how they’re really all tied to a breakdown in the moral order – a rejection of the Biblical worldview. Once we start detouring off God’s road-map for humanity, we eventually end up hopelessly lost.
 

 
In the interview Colson calls Steyn a modern-day Old Testament prophet. I never really thought of Mark in those terms, but I think Colson’s exactly right.
 
Time after time throughout the Old Testament, the Jews strayed from God’s law – and always suffered as a consequence. It took His mercy, and frequently, the loud voice of an Isaiah, Ezekiel or Jeremiah to bring them back.
 
Steyn, Colson and others like them are the prophets we need to be listening to now. Will we heed their message?