In his sermon 'A New Kind of Secularism', Alexander Strauch discusses the challenges faced by Christians in today's America, which he describes as a hostile environment reminiscent of a foreign land. He contrasts the current militant and aggressive form of secularism with the more passive version he grew up with, highlighting its intention to marginalize Christian practices. This new secularism, according to Strauch, presents significant difficulties for Christians trying to live out their faith, drawing parallels to the biblical Babylon to emphasize the cultural hostility.

Well, I think we're in a very hostile environment ourselves today. In fact, that's the big picture of this whole account, that they are in a foreign land. It's a hostile land. And that's exactly what we're seeing in America today. Secularism is exploding.

But it's a different kind of secularism. It's not the secularism I grew up with, which was very passive, didn't bother us, we didn't bother them. But the new secularism is militant, it's angry, it wants to put us out of business. It's just a very hostile, like Babylon, type of culture. So the questions that are going to be asked will all revolve around this kind of environment, which makes living the Christian life much harder.