family and society—even life and death. Whenever we bump into the world, our worldview comes spilling out. Worldviews also have a way of bumping into one another. The examples above all deal with conflicting commitments at the level of daily life, but of course different views of the world have culture-wide influence. The major conflicts in today’s society—the conflict between creation and evolution, for example, or between freedom and terrorism, or between decency and degradation in popular entertainment,