The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.