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The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

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Author, speaker, tv, radio and podcast host Justin Brierley spent a healthy proportion of his career hosting the Unbelievable program that put prominent Christians and non-believers into conversations about faith. During that time he had opportunity to hear the best arguments for both belief and disbelief in the Christian worldview. He also took note of the cultures in his native Britain and world wide and how they have shifted between unbelief and belief. This book shed light on those changes.

Brierley includes quotes from participants on his own show as well as from their collective bodies of work. He examines their lives and shifts of faith. Atheists, agnostics, and Christians weigh in on their faith journeys and what the data from surveys indicates about the faith cultures around us. His conclusions are remarkable.

Five stars for this broad apologetic for the veracity of Christianity. No straw men arguments are present, but a fair and balanced look at both the reasons for and against belief are. The author draws his conclusions about how our cultural pendulum swings around faith, whether we recognize it or not. If you are struggling with either belief or disbelief in God, I highly recommend this quick read. My thanks to Tyndall House Publishers via Netgalley. All expressed opinions are my own and offered without recompense.

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I really enjoyed this book. In fact I am going to be ordering Justin’s other book and listening to his podcast as well. I am someone who really likes to listen to Christians give solid evidence to not only prove their faith is sound and reasonable based but also disprove other theories while doing so, so I’m excited to read it!

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As a Christian, I have been increasingly concerned by the disconnect between the experience of non-believers who actually come into contact with real Christians, and the screaming vitriol of (probably mentally unstable) Tik-Tockers with blue hair. Christianity is true and reasonable, and this book lays out why New Atheism is failing and serious intellectual thinkers like Jordan Peterson are looking to Christianity for - at the least - a framework of values and, at best, what we Christians knew all along - the meaning and purpose of life. (In case you wondered, King Solomon said this was to 'fear God and keep His commands - this is the end of the matter!)
I haven't finished it yet but I have been encouraged by its clear and erudite arguments that 'the tide of faith' may be coming back in. Highly, highly recommended for every thinking Christian. And no, that last phrase was not an 'oxymoron' - we do think a lot more than Mr Dawkins might expect.

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