That ours is a time of intellectual, cultural, moral, and religious turmoil does not need to be argued. What does need to be argued, and what Glendon argues with force and freshness, is that our response to turmoil requires a greater honesty in coming to terms with tradition, and with traditions in conflict. Glendon urges us to be "big enough to be at home in the both and old and new; and painstaking enough to work out one at a time the transitions to be made.”