Helping Others Join Us on the Social Escalator

More than six months ago, the Academy’s Executive Director Dr. Bob Osburn was commissioned by the Center of the American Experiment’s founder Dr. Mitch Pearlstein to join several dozen other essayists in addressing the question,   “Specifically, What Must We Do to Repair Our Culture of Massive Family Fragmentation?”   Dr Osburn’s essay (scroll down about 75% of the way to page 43, past brilliant essays by the likes of Dr. Heather MacDonald, who is currently famous for her new book on race and policing) is titled “Helping Others Join Us on the Social Escalator.”  Like some of the other essayists, he is convinced that family fragmentation, in all its forms, is one of America’s greatest challenges, but one that also provides an enormous opportunity for the Gospel of the Kingdom to be proclaimed and lived by those who aspire to be redemptive change agents right here in the USA.