Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age
A healthy apologetics uses logic and provides evidences, but it also grounds logic and evidence in genuine human connection that gives credence to and resonates with people’s deeply held aspirations and affections.
Joshua D. Chatraw • Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age
The ability to seek the common good through compromise is a mere pipe dream because the other side is determined not merely to be wrong. Those on the other side are deemed morally reprehensible so that I and my group can be completely innocent. All guilt falls on “the other,” and the only proper response is to silence the guilty.
Joshua D. Chatraw • Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age
We don’t judge an animal to be wicked for killing their rivals. Yet we do judge humans for such a thing, which suggests many today recognize that we should rise above the violence of the natural world.
Joshua D. Chatraw • Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age
Because beauty, creativity, and design point beyond the creation to the ultimate Creator, our impulse to invest in and enjoy the beautiful is infused with a higher meaning. Creating and admiring beautiful things are tangible ways for Christians to worship the Creator.