Torch: what's the world is coming to...

First day of school is today.  (For those who don't know much about me, I am a network/software-development manager for a local community college in my day job.  I have been working there for over 15 years now).

As I was walking across the campus today, I couldn't believe what I see on the cover of our college's magazine Torch: a stripper!  And a subtitle for the lead article: "Not Your Mom's Part-Time Job: students strip to pay for school" (racy cover picture coming up soon - I forgot my webcam at home today).

Now this is too much!

I've been a very tolerable person at work.  Our diversity officer is an open homosexual person - she brought the subject up in our diversity/sexual-harassment training here at work.  When they invited gays and lesbians on campus to talk about diversity and discrimination, I attended - voluntarily - so that I could learn more about what's going on.  And the diversity officer generally has been doing a good job in making sure that swimsuit calendars are removed from cubicles, that offensive jokes won't be told in the classroom, that racial remarks will be deal with swiftly.

And now this?

We are living in a world where relativism reigns - "What's right for you is OK for you! But don't impose your standards on me!"  Even church goers believe that as well.

In the most recent communication about tolerance, TV came up with a show named "The Book of Daniel".  The show focuses on a drug-addicted Episcopal priest who has a wife who downs mid-day martinis, a 23-year-old son who is a homosexual Republican, a 16-year-old daughter who sells marijuana and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sexual relations with the bishop’s daughter. The show, produced by a homosexual ex-Catholic, also includes a figure called “Jesus,” who wears a white robe and beard and casually converses with the main character.

The main character in the show, Daniel Webster, laid out an overly tolerant theology during the show’s premiere, saying temptation is not really a bad thing because if not for sin there would be no need for redemption. Furthermore, a person who has sinned should not ask forgiveness of anyone until he has first forgiven himself, Webster said.

And sadly, instead of what many might expect, some leaders of the Episcopal Church are not offended by the portrayal of their denomination broadcast every Friday night on most NBC stations. Instead, they embrace “The Book of Daniel,” as R. Albert Mohler noted in a recent commentary when he wrote Jan. 13 on albertmohler.com. (Mohler is the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. a conservative denomination, while the Episcopals in the US are the most liberal - they are even ordaining homosexual bishop in the name of love and progress last year.)

And an official at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., where the show’s first episode was filmed, said she was enthusiastic about the series because she thinks “it’s a realistic portrayal of a faithful man facing 21st century challenges.” She even expects it to attract new members to the denomination.

So, as the world begins to degenerate into incoherent chaos because of its rejection for moral absolute, what are we supposed to do as people who follow Christ?  We are supposed to take on the persecution for our belief.  But in the local sense, what am I supposed to do to counter the blatant wrongs I see display on my college's magazine here?  How am I to engage all this?

I had an idea about what I would be doing; but I am waiting for some of your comments first...