“It engages with the complexities of tradition, history, ethnos.”

That’s assuming that they even value these things to begin with. Young (white) people generally dislike tradition as well as their own cultural and racial identity. Their values have been inculcated (or stripped away) by public schools. I may be wrong, but perhaps we start with helping people to become proud of their identity, their history and their heritage again? To see themselves as more than mere interchangeable economic units with no right to a place to call their own in this world?

You were right to use the word deracinated.

“…many people are hungry for truths that can set them free, rather than political posturings that merely draw attention to them.” — Rev. Davidson Loehr, “Why ‘Unitarian Universalism’ is Dying”

http://www.meadville.edu/uploads/files/101.pdf

At any rate, we’re happy you found the site, too. Welcome.

Aside from progressivism and rampant neoconnery, I would say a big problem with the Southern Baptist conference is their unwillingness to engage in rigorous intellectual endeavor. Southerners have long distrusted the efficacy of pure speculation. And I think that’s generally a sanguine and healthy skepticism. In contemporary America, though, in the absence of a rich aesthetic culture, such an aversion to philosophy makes you vulnerable to the sort of jingoism and sloganeering that obtain in so much Southern Baptist thought today. They need a little of that long-hated intellectualism to bring them back into balance. That’s my two cents at least.