Wanted: Ambidextrous Apologists
We need pastors and evangelists who can move fluidly between competing objections to Christianity, demonstrating versatility in how they respond to challenges from every side.
We need pastors and evangelists who can move fluidly between competing objections to Christianity, demonstrating versatility in how they respond to challenges from every side.
In a culture that’s increasingly anxious, isolated, and dissatisfied despite its affluence, we stand as bearers of the one message that speaks directly to this contradiction.
‘Believe’ may help those hostile to religion of any kind open up to the gospel, though further help outside its pages may be needed to guide them to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life.
‘Cross Purposes’ comes so close to correctly diagnosing the problem with our ailing late-modern democracy and understanding the fracturing of American evangelicalism. In the end, it merely reinforces a blind faith in classical liberalism.
Nicholas Carr’s ‘Superbloom’ is a profound reminder of what’s at stake if we consume only ultraprocessed communication at the expense of real, embodied community.