The Bulwark: We Need a New Great Awakening

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush and Ian Bassin wrote a piece for The Bulwark.

It feels as if we are in a moment in which the moral ground beneath us is shifting. Compassion is in retreat and hatred is on the rise. Alienation is ascendant and community harder to find. Our public life is fractured, our discourse coarsened, and our confidence in one another eroded. Unmoored and anxious, the temptation for many is to retreat into tribes or despair. Or both.

Yet history whispers that such times are not only moments of danger. They are also invitations.

Read the full piece here.