The recent shooting in Nashville, Tennessee,  a desperate enough tragedy in its own terms, is provoking a wider cultural assault that is shaking American society in a way that deepens the fault lines of the culture wars and the struggle between Left and Right.

The facts of the shooting are obviously widely known. But the implications and ramifications are still unfolding, and they look ominous for the welfare of Christians.

It’s not simply that this was the targeting of a Christian school, and the deliberate murder of six different Christians and adults. It is the reactions and counter-reactions that are embedded in the reflexes that feed the ideological conflict that is dividing the West in general, but Americans in particular.