Individual Christians must take personal responsibility for their spiritual condition in order for America, and ultimately, the world, to change, according to Mark Foley, president of the University of Mobile.

“It’s time to commit, to lead, to transform America,” writes Foley in his new book titled “It’s Time.” The book, with a forward by Michael Catt, is available through Amazon.com.

“The greatest threat to America sits in church pews every Sunday morning across the land,” writes Foley, a former executive vice president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned a master of divinity and doctor of philosophy in psychology and counseling.

“The weak link in the transformation of a nation is the individual Christian’s fulfillment of responsibility, not God’s response. God is faithful,” Foley writes.

The book makes the case for the need for change in America and includes a practical guide to fulfilling the four responsibilities and living a transformed life fully committed to God. The key to that life is using one’s influence as a committed Christian to take a stand and stop the nation’s slide away from the things of God, Foley said.

It is a call to action the Baptist university has issued through its new Center for Leadership and the Twelve23 Movement aimed at revitalizing Christian faith and character in America by the year 2020. The Center for Leadership is working to bring national attention to the goal of helping leaders in a variety of professions fulfill their responsibility to God as American citizens.

Michael Catt, pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., and executive producer of Sherwood Pictures which created the movies “Fireproof” and “Courageous,” said the message “resonates in my heart as a clarion call to action.

“We live in a time when we need men and women who are placed in strategic places of influence,” writes Catt in the book’s forward. “Research and statistics tell us our nation is sliding into an abyss.” Foley “has given us solid, Biblically-based solutions,” Catt wrote.

Foley said a university is the prime place to start a movement to turn the tide in America.

“I realized that my time of influence and that of my generation is drawing to a close, as we retire and move from positions of leadership,” Foley said. He said men and women in college today or beginning their careers in the workplace are the ones who will ultimately guide the future of the nation.

Foley said it is time for Christian leaders of all ages in all professional fields to take a stand.

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A new book titled, "We Forgot! The 7 Unlearned Lessons of 9/11" by Dr. Joe Savage, director of the University of Mobile Center for Leadership and Amy Wright, Assistant Director, was released Fall 2011.

"We Forgot," published by University of Mobile Press, is available for purchase here or by calling the University Center for Leadership at 251.442.2555.

According to Savage, the current national crisis is due in part to the American people's failure to remember the foundational truths conveyed by our nation's founders. In ‘We Forgot," Savage and Wright present 7 lessons that every American must remember in order for our nation to thrive. The lessons in the book are drawn from the events surrounding the 1789 inauguration of George Washington and the national response following September 11, 2001.

"On September 11, we were reminded how quickly we dismiss the very things that are the most important, things like the importance of a solid family, of a free economy, of a dedicated President and Congress, of a meaningful church, of skilled leadership, and the one that seems to be forgotten most often: the importance of dependence upon God," Savage writes in the introduction to "We Forgot."

In "We Forgot," follow the path of George Washington on inauguration day and rediscover the truths that define the character of the American people.