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God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here is the much-anticipated sequel to David F. Wells’ widely praised book No Place for Truth, which garnered multiple “Book of the Year” awards from Christianity Today. Building on the trenchant cultural and religious analyses of evangelical Protestantism set forth in his first volume, Wells argues in God in the Wasteland that the church is now enfeebled because it has lost its sense of God’s...

The legacy of Protestant orthodoxy has been surgically altered to fit modern standards of pleasantness and light. If the spirit of Puritanism was best represented graphically by a preacher in an elevated pulpit, the arm raised in vigorous punctuation upon the truth of God, that of modern evangelicalism is probably best represented today by the ubiquitous happy face, a bright smile beckoning smiles in return. There is an indefatigable sociability to this religion of civility, a perpetual friendliness,
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