Moving Past Despair

When you consider the prospects for Christians right now, you might think they would be in despair. And you might be right. There is a lot of evidence that things are not going well.

In the newest episode of Life and Books and Everything, Collin, Justin, and I look at several specific phenomena that would cause despair. And then what we can do now to move from that despair and into hope. Plus, there are some great book recommendations!

Timestamps:

Have you heard of Michael Reeves? [0:00 – 3:56]

Life & Football & Everything [3:56 – 7:22]

How’s COVID-19 going? [7:22 – 25:41]

Reasons for Current Earthly Despair [25:41 – 44:54]

• Declining Fertility Rate
• Declining Church Membership Rate
• Cultural Institutions Aligned Against Christianity
• The Speed of the Collapse
• Race Relations Getting Worse

Now what do we do? [44:54 – 1:01:56]

Books & Everything [1:01:56 – 1:15:29]

Books and Everything:

Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind, by Grace
Olmstead

A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War,
by James Byrd

Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts

Surviving Religion 101, by Michael Kruger

The Life of John Murray, by Iain H. Murray

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest, by Crawford Gribben

The Soul of Abraham Lincoln, by William Eleazar Barton

Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001, by
Garrett M. Graff