Emphasis Preaching Journal

What's become of authority? In our society, those who were once regarded as having authority are often treated without respect and sometimes with contempt. The authority of the law enforcement agencies seems weakened. School teachers and administrators appear to have far less authority than they once had. Even parents are granted considerably less authority than in the days we (the authors) were growing up. The cultural challenges by the young people in the 1960s and '70s set in motion a radical reassessment of authority that has not yet been settled in our culture. The protests against U.S.