Troy Miller has spent decades inside American Christianity. As President and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters, he has watched more churches, more ministries, and more Christian media organizations than perhaps any other person in America. What he has seen troubles him deeply.

“The issue is no longer simply that Scripture is denied,” Miller wrote recently. “It is that Scripture is often no longer known with sufficient depth to be interpreted responsibly, rejected intelligently, or applied coherently. In decades past, most Americans at least knew what they were rejecting. A society that has lost the categories necessary to understand truth has entered a truly precarious condition.