Tim Goeglein, a veteran soldier in the culture wars, has provided over three decades of yeoman service in defense of the Christian faith and our unique heritage as Americans through his service for eight years as a senior assistant at the White House under President George W. Bush and for almost two decades now as vice president for government and external relations at Focus on the Family in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
It has been both an honor and a privilege to have worked with Tim on many issues of common concern over that time period. He has been an invaluable soldier in the cause of restoring Christian faith to its rightful perspective in American life, and he has done so as a Christian gentleman who has always reflected honor on both his Savior and the causes he has championed.
His new book is What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom and Family (Fidelis Publishing, 2026). In this book, a collection of Goeglein’s trenchant essays from over the years on the flashpoints of conflict in American culture, Tim lays out the problems and suggests the remedies for the issues rending our civil and political society in ways that have led to significant suffering and human tragedy.
While Goeglein, with the assistance of Craig Osten, has much truth and wisdom to share with his readers on many subjects, he illustrates by his order of presentation the issue of most import and the one that must be addressed first. He starts with the collapse of marriage and the family, an established, foundational building block of society. He remembers that God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Gen. 2:18), and He created the woman as a “help meet for him.” And that was before sin entered the world. Even in the Garden of Eden, it was not good for pre-fallen man to be alone. After “the Fall,” it became disastrous.
The share of households in America headed by married couples fell from 79% in 1950 to 47% in 2024. As author James Q. Wilson observed, “Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, now it is an arrangement.” With the decline and fall of marriage has come the significant rise of out-of-wedlock births, which have shot up from 7% in 1960 to well over 40% today.
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