When something has been wrong for a long time — or when books have been out of balance — there eventually comes a day of reckoning. That’s when debits and credits are added up and there’s either a credit or a price to be paid.
In our culture, we have been living on borrowed time for about a hundred years, because we’ve built prosperity on a foundation made of shifting sand. Today, we face the possibility of that system crashing down around us. Most people are scared and they have reason to be.
Who can you trust as we enter this age of reckoning, when all that we’ve known is probably going to be torn down?
Preview of next week’s show: We’re going to continue looking at the coming age of reckoning, starting with the things that have gone wrong and how we can make the best of some days which threaten to be very dark for most people.

Abortion debate gives us lots of candidates for ‘Idiot of the Year’
I was in love with her voice and didn’t want that call to ever end
Theft is biggest problem with customers not tipping gay server
We forget how to be happy, but children and animals remember
Narcissists set themselves up for miserable lives and lonely deaths
Shallow thinking and arrogance led to ruin of once-great society
Is this what happens when you teach children there are no absolutes?
Leopards might not change spots, but cowardly lions can gain courage
After long but necessary detours, the beginning finally nears for me