moral conditions

Examines the conservative movement in America that has supported traditional social and family values since the 1980s and the Reagan administration; and profiles such groups as the Christian Coalition of America and the American Family Association.

Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.

Story of a young slave, Celia, who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder.

Explores how the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the last twenty years has led to corrupt values in the United States, forcing many people to cutting corners, deception, and corruption.

The author issues a challenge to America's leaders, teachers, parents, grandparents, and the faith community to help break down the barriers of poverty, illiteracy, and violence and provide a better future for children.

Autobiography of Mel White, Christian writer, filmmaker, and ghost writer for Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, and Oliver North. Dr. White tells of his life long struggle with his sexual orientation and how he came to accept his homosexuality as a gift from God.

Presents the author's view on a wide range of social, religious, and politcal topics, describing his own involvement in various debates about preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, abortion, homosexuality, the environment, and more, in relation to his Christian faith.

Presents twenty-four debate-style essays on issues regarding American values, such as whether America is in moral decline and how patriotism should be defined.