This essay is adapted from an address delivered to an international conference on the family in Manila in March 1999. It first appeared in its present form in The Natural Family (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2017), the journal of the International Organisation for the Family, Religion & Society, of which Allan C. Carlson is editor. A new, unexpected, and historically unprecedented cultural-political movement has formed in our time, one born in defence of family-centred religious faith. If we look, the s…
