All around us, voices are crying out from the ruins of a crumbling society. Victims are everywhere. Even in the churches, among second- and third-generation Christians as well as the newly saved, there are many suffering people. Distraught by broken relationships, unsettled emotions, or uncertain goals, they naturally seek professional counsel, and such counsel is easily found. Within reach are pastors, lay counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and others. Of these, who is best able to help?

Although in recent years James Dobson has done valuable work in crusading against such social evils as pornography, he has never, to my knowledge, repudiated the unscriptural teaching in the film series that catapulted him to stardom.

Philosophy is the study of truth fundamental to understanding reality and meeting its demands. In a secondary sense, philosophy is a system of thought emerging from such a study. Since, by definition, truth lies at the core of philosophy, it is evident that the term cannot properly be used of any system of thought infused with error. Thus, we should regard the expression "Christian philosophy of education" as redundant. There can be no philosophy of education except it be Christian.

One sign of the decay in Christianity is its failure to resist recent trends in so-called Christian music. During the last generation, the music made for a Christian audience has shifted dramatically toward a popular sound with blatant elements of jazz and rock. As a result, the special music in many churches today is no longer recognizably sacred, but could with different words be played in a night club. The music targeted for Christian homes is even worse. The recordings available in a Christian bookstore may be as raucous as the Top 40, and a broadcast on Christian radio may offer the same groans, thumps, and wailings heard elsewhere on the dial.

The reason today's music for a Christian market is youth-oriented and closely imitative of worldly styles is not hard to find. Most of it is made by business ventures under secular ownership and control. The energizer of such companies as EMI, Sony, and Warner is, naturally, the profit motive. In all their decisions they seek no goal except money.