What's Important Now has been airing since 2003. Hosted by Tom Sears, the program takes a look at current events and applies biblical understanding to them. This program focuses heavily on America's Christian Heritage and the fight to ensure it's survival.
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You do not have to go to church to have skin in this game.
This episode is for the person who loves America but is not sure the faith argument applies to them. The person who can feel that something is wrong but has not yet connected the dots. The person who is skeptical of religious arguments but cares deeply about freedom, about their children's future, and about the kind of country America is becoming.
Tom Sears makes the case today that the removal of America's Christian foundation is not primarily a religious issue. It is a historical one. And history is not ambiguous about what happens when governments decide that human dignity does not come from God.
The Soviet Union thought they were building a better world. So did Nazi Germany. So did Mao's China. So did the Khmer Rouge. Every one of them rejected the idea that rights come from God. Every one of them produced mass graves. That is not alarmism. That is the documented record of the 20th century. And it raises a question that almost nobody in the current debate is asking.
If you take the Christian foundation away, what do you replace it with?
Episode 3 of the Battle Is On series also covers what is actually being taught to the next generation in American classrooms, why the mental health crisis among young Americans is connected to the removal of their heritage, why the freedoms most Americans take for granted rest on a foundation being pulled out from under them, and why John Adams was right when he said the Constitution is wholly inadequate to the government of any people who are not moral and religious.
This episode is drawn from The Battle Is On: America's New Civil War by Tom Sears. The book, the interactive workbooks, and all Legacy Living Media programs are available at legacylivingmedia.com (https://legacylivingmedia.com).
What's Important Now with Tom Sears | The Battle Is On Series | Episode 3 of 16 |
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8 Aug 2026
The Battle Is On Series: Two Visions of America
America is not having a political argument right now. It is having a foundational one. And those do not resolve the same way.
For as long as most people can remember, the assumption has been that the battles playing out in American culture are just the normal back-and-forth of a diverse democracy. Left and right. Liberal and conservative. The pendulum swings, and eventually it swings back.
That assumption is wrong. And understanding why it is wrong is the beginning of understanding everything else happening in this country right now.
In Episode 2 of the Battle Is On series, Tom Sears lays out the two visions of America that are competing for the soul of the nation. Not two political platforms. Two completely different answers to the most foundational questions of human life. Where do rights come from. What is a human being. What holds a free society together. Two answers so different they cannot permanently coexist. Only one of them can win.
Tom also addresses the hardest objection to America's Christian heritage head-on. The slavery argument. And he brings in the most powerful possible answer to it. Not a political argument. A historical one. Frederick Douglass was a man who had been enslaved and had every reason to reject the founding as fraudulent. He chose instead to wield the founding principles as the most powerful weapon against the injustice he had lived. His answer to Vision Two is the answer this episode is built around.
Tom also opens today's program with a full overview of everything available through Legacy Living Media. The books Into the Deep, Out of the Cave, Lay It Down, While It Is Day, and The Battle Is On, along with the interactive workbooks designed for personal growth and small group use. All of it is at legacylivingmedia.com.
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29 Jul 2026
Why It Matters: 7-29-26
The invisible war is the most dangerous kind. Here is why.
On Monday, we introduced the idea that America is in a war that was never declared. Today we go deeper. How does a culture actually get transformed without most people noticing? How do ideas move through institutions and reshape what an entire generation believes? And what does Scripture say about a people who do not know the time they are living in?
Why It Matters is the Wednesday edition of the What's Important Now platform, eight to twelve minutes of history, faith, and worldview designed to give you the deeper context behind what is happening in this country right now. Not just the headline. The history behind the headline. Not just the problem. The biblical framework for understanding it.
This week Tom Sears traces the strategy behind the cultural transformation of America, how the long march through the institutions works, why it has been so effective, and why the prophet Jeremiah and the Apostle Paul both issued the same warning to people living in exactly this kind of moment.
Peace, peace, when there is no peace. That is the condition of a people who are not paying attention. This program is for the people who are.
Find the full thirty-minute program, the book, and everything Legacy Living Media produces at legacylivingmedia.com (https://legacylivingmedia.com).
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