Our Endangered Values : America's Moral Crisis

In the book Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis , former President Jimmy Carter argues from a liberal religious perspective that the “nation’s basic moral values” are being challenged, and he offers perspective’s on how to turn that around. Much of the first half of the book is spent discussing basic religious questions that dominate the U.S.’s national debate: religious fundamentalism, conflicts between science and religion, the separation of church and state, divorce and homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, and even the subservience of women. It’s very interesting to hear the liberal viewpoint argued from the perspective of an evangelist. The second half of the book offers perspectives on foreign policy and the environment, and brings forth viewpoints that are also rarely heard in the present national debate. The book is a discussion of the most popular issues of the present, from the perspective of a liberal, religious, southern democrat, offering acceptable compromises in a time of polarization.