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", 1 Aren't We Better Off without Religion? If you’re a non-Christian and have wondered why Christians think and do as they do, this book will be a good start to exploring those questions.

In 2004, Sam Harris published The End of Faith: Religions Terror, and the Future of Reason, followed in 2006 by Letter to a Christian Nation. God is love. It is brimming with hope and will surprise you—and likely change the way you think about Jesus.”, —Jon Bloom, Cofounder, Desiring God; author, Not by Sight, “What Christianity has to offer the world is bound up in its strangeness.

One study observed the attitudes of janitors emptying bedpans and cleaning up vomit in a hospital.

This sounds like wishful thinking. And yet studying is seen as a threat to faith.

our full redemption in Christ and explores the mystery of the church. Invigorated by these triumphs, atheists have boldly claimed the moral and intellectual high ground — even when that has meant trespassing. The second has a career. Rather than abandoning rapture, de Botton suggested secular audiences respond to atheist preaching by lauding their heroes: "Thank you Plato, thank you Shakespeare, thank you Jane Austen!"

A beautiful book. 209, “This book is compelling reading, not only because of its intellectual rigor and the fact that it is beautifully written but also because of its honest, empathetic humanity. In 2016, the largest survey of incoming freshmen to US universities found that 30.9 percent claimed no religious affiliation — a dramatic 10 percent rise since 2006.8 This group broke down into freshmen who selected "none" (16 percent), those who identified as agnostic (8.5 percent), and those who claimed atheism (6.4 percent).

If you’re a believer, this book will not only equip you intellectually but also call you to compassion and empathy for your questioning, unbelieving neighbor, as well as prepare you to bear witness to the Light that has come into the world.”―Russell Moore, President, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, “A fresh voice, arresting arguments, and an easy-to-read style.

Fully referenced with excellent footnotes. The list of compelling stories, shows, and songs that invite us to reject religion is long, and we forget how much of the cultural capital we see as universal was sculpted by Christianity. She has studied widely, thinks deeply, and argues very persuasively.

The first says, 'I am laying bricks.' Copyright © 2020 The Gospel Coalition, INC. All Rights Reserved. The director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, a seventy-five-year study of well-being, summarizes its findings like this: "Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. But when more students identify as Baptist than atheist, we need to be careful about exaggerated claims of secularization. Her writing feels scholarly without ever being boring or difficult to read. I stuck out. Would going to the local golf club once a week and enjoying a shared interest with a consistent group yield similar results? 95, 7 Hasn't Science Disproved Christianity?

Confronting Christianity will help you understand the hard questions of the Christian faith while also igniting a love for neighbor.

Respectfully presenting opposing sides of often volatile debates, McLaughlin delves into divisive topics, such as abortion, the basis of morality, and how a loving God can allow suffering. Likewise, at the 2016 "Reason Rally," designed to mobilize atheists, agnostics, and "nones," multiple speakers invoked Martin Luther King's March on Washington — as if a rally that despised Christianity would have pleased one of the most powerful Christian preachers in American history. I found it highly readable, well researched, well written, compassionate and thought-provoking.

Further, I had read a few of Rebecca Mclaughlin's blogs prior to this book with no great effect. Along with the capacity for new perspective. Confronting Christianity will help you understand the hard questions of the Christian faith while also igniting a love for neighbor. McLaughlin doesn’t shy away from tough questions about diversity and the nations, as well as slavery and facing America’s past and present. I want to explore seven counterintuitive biblical commands and how they relate to the findings of modern psychology. For those of us raised on a steady diet of capitalism, the Bible's critique of wealth is tough to swallow.

Back in my own motherland, the iconic sci-fi series Doctor Who takes viewers on breathless sprints between the moving, the witty, and the profound. He salivated over the black American preaching tradition and the enthusiastic response of congregants: "Thank you Jesus, thank you Christ, thank you Savior!"

She is cofounder of Vocable Communications and former vice president of content at the Veritas Forum, where she spent almost a decade working with Christian academics at leading secular universities. What makes religious participation so powerful? Some writers today, at least it seems to me, take up the pen in order to self-describe as authors rather than actually having something to say. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019. I was into Jesus. “A deep and caring response to current criticisms and confrontations of the Christian faith fills Rebecca McLaughlin’s book.

As economist Jeffrey Sachs notes in the World Happiness Report 2018, in the US, "income per capita has more than doubled since 1972 while happiness (or subjective well-being, SWB) has remained roughly unchanged or has even declined."

Those who saw themselves as part of a team caring for the sick, and who went above and beyond to do their job with excellence, saw their work as a calling and enjoyed it far more than those who worked just for a paycheck. Take up and read.”—Trillia Newbell, author, If God Is For Us: The Everlasting Truth of Our Great Salvation, “Rebecca McLaughlin refuses to duck the biggest challenges to the Christian faith and takes on the hardest questions with empathy, energy, and understanding. Partly inspired by the 1980 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Atwood envisages a similarly repressive, supposedly Christian regime. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.

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“Apologetics with heart, discernment, empathy, and rigorous study.

Reads like a crime novel, documented like a research paper, Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2019.

Those still fertile after a nuclear fallout are assigned to male "Commanders," who seek to impregnate them in a monthly ceremony, supposedly modeled on Abraham's impregnation of his wife Sarah's handmaid. Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. Rebecca goes deep into research, facts, and the text of the Bible while also utilizing Harry Potter, Dr Who, and current events. Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. If you’re a non-Christian and have wondered why Christians think and do as they do, this book will be a good start to exploring those questions. I can do all this through him who gives me strength" (Phil. Rather, it tells a story in which humans are made to be in relationship with God and with each other, and to pour themselves into meaningful work. If your father was a carpenter, you had better be into woodworking! In general, religious participation appears to be good for your health and happiness.

One guy assumed I was being ironic, and we struck up an unlikely friendship.

We both loved books.

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Women's bank accounts are suspended. While the Bible eviscerates the love of money, it does not call us to a leisurely life. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2020. At an empirical level, the answer seems to be no. “A deep and caring response to current criticisms and confrontations of the Christian faith fills Rebecca McLaughlin’s book. But to say that religion is bad for you is like saying, "Drugs are bad for you," without distinguishing cocaine from life-saving medication.

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Learn more. Readers will find themselves expertly guided on a journey that involves them not only in confronting Christianity but also in confronting themselves—their worldviews, hopes, fears, failures, and search for identity and satisfaction—and, finally, in confronting Christ as the altogether credible source of life as God means it to be.”—John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, “McLaughlin probes some of the trickiest cultural challenges to Christianity of our day and clearly demonstrates the breadth and richness of a Christian response. This is an outstanding resource for the skeptic, the doubter, and anyone who is ready to engage with some compelling thinking.”, —Sam Allberry, Speaker, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries; author, Is God Anti-Gay? This book is written not merely for skeptics but also for those who have suffered much in this sin-sick, destructive world.

They would be concise. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion. Confronting Christianity is a book I will draw upon myself and will recommend widely to believers and skeptics alike.”—Karen Swallow Prior, author, On Reading Well and Fierce Convictions, “Rebecca McLaughlin addresses the most frequent and pressing objections to Christianity in our time with unflinching honesty, rigorous clarity, and deep compassion.

We Really Can Be Happy in All Circumstances, This view of work ties into a yet more counterintuitive biblical claim. But it wasn't just my lack of time in front of a camera that set me apart: I showed up to college with a three-inch wooden cross around my neck.

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