A More Life-Affirming Worldview (Pearcey)

The following section of Nancy Pearcey's Love Thy Body is very helpful. Here are some great thoughts for Christians. ...As Christian influence wanes, will Western culture revert back to a sexual free-for-all like that of the ancient world? If so, Christians will once again need to muster their courage to be radically countercultural. And they…

Idols and Destructive Behavior (Pearcey)

I really appreciate the book Finding Truth by Nancy Pearcey. It's really a great resource for Christian apologetics, reasoning, and worldview. Here's a quote that I've read, marked up, and re-read. I trust you'll find it worthwhile as well: Why do idols invariably lead to destructive behavior? What is the connection? The link is that…

Abortion and Dehumanization (Pearcey)

 I'm very much enjoying Nancy Pearcey's new book, Love Thy Body.  I'll come back to it again later, but for now I wanted to share an insightful observation of Pearcey's in the first chapter: If you favor abortion, you are implicitly saying that in the early stages of life, an unborn baby has so little value…

Worldview: Idols Have Consequences (Pearcey)

 So far I'm very much enjoying this book by Nancy Pearcey: Finding Truth.  It's a great Christian resource for evaluating various worldviews in light of Scripture.  In this book Pearcey gives five biblical principles for unmasking idolatrous "-isms" like atheism, secularism, materialism, and so forth.  This morning I was reading the section where Pearcey noted that…