Calvinists are realists.
That does not mean we are never optimistic,
but we are not always optimistic.
A Calvinistic church is a place you can grieve,
a place where you can be sad as well as happy,
where there is a realism in the approach to
life.
So, a Reformed church is, I believe, what
we are going to need progressively, because
I think it's not too much to say that we seem
in the midst of a third American Revolution.
When we talked about the 19th century, I talked
about how the first American Revolution was
really a revolution of patricians to maintain
their rights as Englishmen.
Then, in the 1820s, we really had a second
American Revolution, where a more democratic
spirit - you remember I quoted the historian
who said we had moved from ruled by the snobs
to ruled by the mobs.
I think we are seeing now what may turn out
to be a third American Revolution, which will
be radical and secular in its individualism.
