I most certainly commend that remnant of Christians such as yourself who are awake to the leavening responsibility of Christianity and are valiantly fighting the good fight, trying to rouse the Church from its slumber.

In a book I read recently, and which you’ve reviewed, written by Alvin Schmidt and entitled “How Christianity Changed the World”, I was struck by the extent to which Christianity was responsible for even some of the things we would most take for granted and assume existed independently of Christianity. What particularly hit me was that something that I would have thought any society, whether influenced by Christianity or not, would have had the sense to do was not done with the Romans, which in their case was the (I should have thought) self-evident idea of separating male and female prisoners in jail.

But not until the Christians came along did it occur to them to do such a thing. To me, this goes to show the important — indeed invaluable — role Christians play in civilising and ameliorating the society around them. After all, they are the ones who have the light, who have been given the truth.

And if they choose to remain within the four walls of their church, hiding their light under a bushel of pietistic irrelevence, then they should not be surprised at the crumbling world around them, and should soon expect to be “cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

Francis Gamba, Melbourne

Having said that, however, I would not minimize the fact that there are activist groups out there that are fully determined to see the destruction of everything we hold near and dear. There are groups and individuals out there who really do hate marriage and family, and are doing their best to wreck these institutions. There are those who want to get our children hooked on destructive drugs. There are those who do despise the sanctity of life, and want to push pro-death policies on us world-wide. There are those who despise the Western way of life and want to see it destroyed and replaced by an undemocratic rule.

And many of these groups are really about money. The pro-abortion crowd is really about big bucks. The pro-drug crowd is about making big money. The pro-pornography crowd is about getting rich off of other’s addictions, and so on.

So you are quite right to say that believers are in many ways to blame. We have not gotten involved in the battles of the day. And that is to our great shame. But let us also remember that there are those out there who are working full time to see the upheaval of faith and values that so many of us hold so dear.

Thus you bring us a helpful reminder, and help bring balance as we think about the strife we find ourselves in.

Bill Muehlenberg. CultureWatch

A more accurate introduction to “Exploding the Nuclear Family” might have been, Family is… something completely unfamiliar from the 70′s no fault divorce, socially unaccountable parent-and-partner style unit that Kay Millican supports.

But then that statement wouldn’t have fit the “dreamtime utopia” that Kay Millican and the sisterhood one day hope to live in.

Wynnum, QLD

Christians have lost their savour, choosing to focus on an internalised, “personal” faith rather than a Kingdom-advancing one, the victory of which Christ already secured in principle at Cavalry. Rather than pressing the crown rights of King Jesus in all areas of life, they spend their time navel-gazing, ignoring the culture sinking around them and so being “good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

The blame for the worsening decadence besetting our culture lies squarely at the feet of those who, possessing the light, have grown slack and negligent, hiding it instead under a bushel of static, inordinate experientialism. They ought to be reminded that God will hold them accountable for their culpable (in)action.

Francis Gamba, Melbourne

Jessie Ho