Gen3fifteen seeks to advance a just and virtuous society by partnering with community leaders to implement distinctly Christian solutions to cultural and civil matters.

Gen3fifteen was founded out of a desire to see a robustly Christian ethos restored in the great institutions of our nation. We believe the legal, educational, and political pillars that uphold our country were erected upon the foundation of a Christian worldview. Yet, over the course of many decades, that Christian foundation has been attacked from within and from outside. Our institutions have undergone rapid and unprecedented decline as a result of a steady deterioration of Christian influence in many spheres of life. Today we are witnessing a new landscape of intolerance toward Christianity that is increasingly turning into outright hostility. The historic events of 2020, vis a vis, the global pandemic and lockdowns, the racial unrest and rioting in our cities, the political drama resulting from the elections, as well as the high-tech attacks upon our freedom of speech, not to mention the medical authoritarianism we are witnessing even today, have laid bare the corrosive condition of the very mechanisms that were meant to preserve our civil liberties.  

It is necessary, then, to make a sober assessment of the challenges confronting us as we seek to live out our faith both in the public and private spheres.  Space does not permit us to adequately detail those challenges, yet we cannot neglect to mention that chief among them is maintaining a sense of permanence in an environment that worships novelty and despises truth. By truth I mean truth in both the ultimate sense, i.e. claims about the nature of this world that are valid because they correspond to reality, and truth in the colloquial sense, i.e. matters of fact in everyday life that can be verified and agreed to by reasonable people. Historically, a basic, common understanding of truth has had weight in the public mind, but that is no longer the case.

We live in a time when admitting to truth in the first sense carries a stigma of backward, unrefined thinking, while truth in the second sense has been devalued by the way we have commoditized and accessorized it to fit our personal tastes and individual agendas.  Consensus is hard to come by on trivial matters, let alone on anything that is meaningful or consequential, like education or family.  We all have our truth and have become our ultimate standard for judging others.  We judge ourselves by ourselves, which inevitably leads to an overestimation of ourselves and marginalization of everyone else.  The atomization of truth, in service to the hyper-individualized and democratized Self, has inevitably led to silly ideas like “my truth”.  When we as individuals become arbiters of what is true, rather than adherents of fixed, time-tested standards of truth, what can we expect but a society in which nothing is stable or permanent, but rather one in which existence is an ever-present flux? 

Consider how this year alone we witnessed a complex web of lies unfold before our very eyes without a trace of shame on behalf of those who perpetrated such lies.  Whether we refer to the misinformation propagated by our so-called health experts concerning the origins and nature of the pandemic, or the complete denial of the destructive nature of the summer riots that were often referred to as “mostly peaceful protests”, or the utterly disastrous election that national and local governing authorities continue to deny were severely compromised, or the mainstream media and Big Tech’s gleeful suppression of the facts surrounding all these events,  we are experiencing an unprecedented level of deception and lawlessness in this country. We are being lied to with impunity because any so-called system of justice that fails to attach itself to a moral law has no authority or credibility to police itself, let alone correct civil wrongs and promote civil rights.

We must seek answers to our present disordered state by looking beyond our compromised institutions to the firm moral and spiritual foundation that lies under the ruins. Now more than ever we need to return to the fountain of good that made our nation unique among any other in history, and once again look to Christian principles to re-integrate the tattered remains of the delicate patchwork we call civil society.