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A review by jamie_o
Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture by Natasha Crain
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
"Feelings are the ultimate guide, happiness is the ultimate goal, judging is the ultimate sin, and God is the ultimate guess" - Natasha Crain calls this the four pillars of secularism.
She challenges Christians to live out our faith in an increasingly secular culture where we are in the worldview minority. She tackles current hot topics such as cancel culture, deconstructionism, social justice, virtue signaling, critical theory, relativism, etc., and in doing so she identifies their worldview illogicalness/inconsistencies. She speaks in a respectful, logical, humble, and intellectual way that I really appreciated.
Audiobook is not my favorite format for topical nonfiction as I process this type of information better by reading the words in print and being able to slow down/reflect as needed... but I only have so much free time. I still got a lot of good out of it and I'll encourage my kids to read it before graduating high school.
The audiobook was read by the author. Natasha is very quotable:
"When you hold a worldview in which the authority is the self, you gain the perceived freedom to do what you want but lose the objective basis for telling anyone else what is morally good or evil."
"There are unanswered questions in any worldview. No one has all the answers. The question should never be, how do I get rid of all the questions I have, but rather, which worldview offers the best explanation of reality."
"The notion that our only valid knowledge of reality comes from science is self-refuting. That statement itself can't be determined by science. It's philosophical in nature. In addition, there are several types of knowledge outside of science that we accept in everyday life such as sense, experience, and reason itself. A person may claim that our only valid knowledge comes from science, but no one lives that way."
She challenges Christians to live out our faith in an increasingly secular culture where we are in the worldview minority. She tackles current hot topics such as cancel culture, deconstructionism, social justice, virtue signaling, critical theory, relativism, etc., and in doing so she identifies their worldview illogicalness/inconsistencies. She speaks in a respectful, logical, humble, and intellectual way that I really appreciated.
Audiobook is not my favorite format for topical nonfiction as I process this type of information better by reading the words in print and being able to slow down/reflect as needed... but I only have so much free time. I still got a lot of good out of it and I'll encourage my kids to read it before graduating high school.
The audiobook was read by the author. Natasha is very quotable:
"When you hold a worldview in which the authority is the self, you gain the perceived freedom to do what you want but lose the objective basis for telling anyone else what is morally good or evil."
"There are unanswered questions in any worldview. No one has all the answers. The question should never be, how do I get rid of all the questions I have, but rather, which worldview offers the best explanation of reality."
"The notion that our only valid knowledge of reality comes from science is self-refuting. That statement itself can't be determined by science. It's philosophical in nature. In addition, there are several types of knowledge outside of science that we accept in everyday life such as sense, experience, and reason itself. A person may claim that our only valid knowledge comes from science, but no one lives that way."