Brian interviews Jim Wilson, Author, lecturer, Anglican priest, regarding his new work Generation, a novel exploring the deeper issues of the 1960's.
Brian explains how Life Matters explores the ideas of the right to life, that every life has a significance that can not be readily recognized, yet is given by our sheer humanity. "Endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights," was how America's founders put it. But this was a reflection of the ideas which they had inherited up to that moment. They had inherited the values of Western Civilization.
At its heart Western Civ is built on the premise that human beings are not mere 'smart animals', but that we are more, that we are spiritual entities. This assertion lies at the heart of our assertions regarding the nature of mankind, and the moral duty of the law to protect the lives of those who cannot protect themselves.
It is this cultural premise that is under attack at this moment. Our culture is trying to determine if the core values of Western Civ should be retained, or if a 'new order', a tribalism of new cultural norms and control is a 'better way.'
Rev. Wilson discusses the foundation of the Right to Life, and how his novel is actually an exploration of 'what is true'? What is right? What values should we as individuals and we as a society embrace, and why?
