Friday Forum with Bill Wichterman

 The Culture: Upstream from Politics

Please join us for a free Chick-fil-A lunch and Faith & Law Friday Forum with Bill Wichterman, former White House aide and Senate leadership staffer and President of Faith & Law.

Bill will argue that culture is upstream from politics. In other words, government is like a giant mirror reflecting the soul of the nation.  While the clarity of that reflection will shift from administration to administration, we generally get the government we deserve. As Plato argued, the state is the soul writ large. What we love and what we hate are shaped less by laws than by our habits of the heart. And those habits are shaped far more powerfully by the songs we sing, the movies we watch, and the books we read. It’s been wisely written, “Give me the songs of a nation, and it matters not who writes its laws.” This reality has important implications for how we pursue cultural change.