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Nice post.
The author speaks as one outside the church with little understanding of the nature of religion. He would prefer the anti-culturalists of the 60's to have been reformists. But that could not have happened. That is asking the institutions of religion to stop being religious.
There was a self-consciousness in the 60's and 70's among Christians based on their moral commitments. The challenge that religion had become stuffy and status quo was valid. Christians knew it and were embarrassed. Matters spun out of control. Radicals and extremists took over the field and spouted their aantiestablishment tirades. The church was nonplussed.
Today matters are very different. The religious establishment has grown through the moral crisis of the mid 20th century. There is a new depth of understanding of religious life in this new century. Genuine leadership is being taken by religious conservatives in the very areas of human rights that anti-religionists have ruled over for 40 years. The forces of chaos are being pushed back. Christians are no longer self conscious about past moral ambiguities. They have largely been resolved and the church is more prepared than ever to stand in the center of the struggle for moral society.
The pendulum is swinging away from the influence of those who would destroy human dignity in the name of human dignity and toward those icons that stand the test of history as the bulwarks of a strong, healthy society.

........The forces of chaos are being pushed back.......

Good post.

It will take time to put things right (or solidly move toward moral sanity).

Schools and families have suffered terribly from the idea that government should be in charge.

Our country has to celebrate families guided by a strong moral compass.

There was a self-consciousness in the 60's and 70's among Christians based on their moral commitments. The challenge that religion had become stuffy and status quo was valid. Christians knew it and were embarrassed. Matters spun out of control. Radicals and extremists took over the field and spouted their aantiestablishment tirades. The church was nonplussed.

I disagree. Every time Satan comes up with a new lie it takes time for the church to recognize, define, find ways to bring the lie into the light, and develop solid responses. Evolution is but one such lie, and Creationism was a failed response by the church to the public. However, the new response is Intelligent Design in nature, and it is obvious to everyone except the committed atheist who is determined to eradicate God from his/her conscious. The public has grasped the concept, and that is why evolution as a theory is on its death bed.

The moral bankruptcy of the "God is Dead" has been obvious for some time. Christian theologians have been bringing the lie into the light, and in the last few years they have been able to articulate better responses. These responses and how to articulate them take time to filter down from out seminaries.