Pray America Reawakens, Before It Dies

Over the years 1934-1961, British historian Arnold Toynbee published his 12-volume "A Study of History." Toynbee studied the rise and fall of 23 civilizations. His conclusion was that great civilizations die not from external causes but from internal causes. Toynbee concluded, in the words of one journalist, that "civilizations start to decay when they lose their moral fiber." We don't have to be great historians to know that civilizations have come and gone. Forever is not a given fact of life. In this vein, in this political season, with the...