The question that always came up, from non-Christian students and speakers, was the question of suffering. I previously served at an organisation that hosted university events with academics talking about questions of faith. So the book is addressed to non-Christians, but my hope is that it will get into their hands via their Christian friends, and that reading the book themselves will equip believers to speak compellingly when they are asked hard questions. But I believe that if you look more closely at each of these reasons, they stop being roadblocks to Christ and become signposts. Many of them are fiercely intelligent and deeply compassionate, and they have very good moral and intellectual reasons for dismissing Christianity. This book is a love-song to my non-believing friends. Who is the book aimed at – believer or non-believer? I wrote Confronting Christianity to help close that gap and turn roadblocks into signposts. In the course of this, I discovered a massive information gap: I knew Christians who were world-leaders in every academic field that has supposedly discredited Christianity, and how their faith motivated their work, but most people had no access to this knowledge. I had the privilege of spending 9 years working with some of the world’s top Christian intellectuals, helping them speak about their faith in relation to their work. John Watkins talks to Rebecca McLaughlin about her new book. Religion’s decline in the modern world turns out to be a myth.
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