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Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion is unavailable, but you can change that!

In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade—to make...

who were too short he stretched, and those who were too tall he lopped off their limbs and surplus inches. Just so reason operates when it is made king and given the final word. All the studies of McDonald’s and Disney point this out too. Highly rationalized as they are, or carefully as reason has been applied to every part of their businesses, there is always the “unintended consequence” and “the irrationality of the rational.” Automated telephone calls, for example, save time and personnel for
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