Do you remember the book I reviewed over three years ago, The Problem of God--Answering a Skeptics Challenges to Christianity? This is another book in that vein. Ms. McLaughlin answers most of the same questions Mark Clark did in that book, plus a few more that seem endemic to our own peculiar culture, but in a deeper, more complete way. She rattles off statistics that will shock you. Like the fact that as of 2010 there were more than 68,000,000 Christians in China and that the number of Chinese Protestants has grown by 10% a year since 1979. It is even possible that Christians in China will outnumber Christians in the United States within another decade or so. Christianity is not a Western religion, nor has it ever been intended to be by God. Around the world, the majority of Christians are, in fact, "women of color." In this politically correct culture of ours, she warns that we need to be careful who it is we are really mocking when we mock Christianity.
She points out things that should be self-evident if we weren't so gullible in accepting the numbers and assertions skeptics readily spout. For instance, science has not proved Christianity wrong. In fact, it was Christian scientists who, when noticing the order God has placed in nature, first came up with the scientific method that all scientists now use.
In practically every question she answers, she sets the questioner on his ear with answers that I have seldom, if ever, heard before. In the process, she deepens your faith and corrects a few shallow understandings and platitudes. When it comes to "Isn't Christianity Homophobic?" she truly sets the reader back a notch while carefully showing exactly what the Bible—and the Lord himself—teach. (I won't spoil the surprise.)
In every question, McLaughlin turns it upside down and inside out, leaving no stone unturned. Every chapter covers its topic as completely as possible. While being relatively easy to read, it is as scholarly as one could hope for in its reasoning, data, and citations. You need to read this, and give it to your teenagers to read as well. It will be an immense help to them as they try to make their way through an educational system, and a culture, that lies without blushing and does its best to make every believer into an object of ridicule.
Confronting Christianity is published by Crossway.
Dene Ward
She points out things that should be self-evident if we weren't so gullible in accepting the numbers and assertions skeptics readily spout. For instance, science has not proved Christianity wrong. In fact, it was Christian scientists who, when noticing the order God has placed in nature, first came up with the scientific method that all scientists now use.
In practically every question she answers, she sets the questioner on his ear with answers that I have seldom, if ever, heard before. In the process, she deepens your faith and corrects a few shallow understandings and platitudes. When it comes to "Isn't Christianity Homophobic?" she truly sets the reader back a notch while carefully showing exactly what the Bible—and the Lord himself—teach. (I won't spoil the surprise.)
In every question, McLaughlin turns it upside down and inside out, leaving no stone unturned. Every chapter covers its topic as completely as possible. While being relatively easy to read, it is as scholarly as one could hope for in its reasoning, data, and citations. You need to read this, and give it to your teenagers to read as well. It will be an immense help to them as they try to make their way through an educational system, and a culture, that lies without blushing and does its best to make every believer into an object of ridicule.
Confronting Christianity is published by Crossway.
Dene Ward
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