Natasha Crain - Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture

Natasha Crains Faithfully Different offers a brilliant assessment of our current cultural momentloaded with insight, yet perfectly practicalin prose that is lucid and crystal clear. Crain strikes a healthy balance between her native kindness and gentleness and her sharp biblical thinking, helping you discover, finally, how all the crazy cultural pieces fit together and what to do about it.

Crains work is not only an accessible primer for Christians who find themselves overwhelmed by the confusing array of challenges facing their convictions: from deconversions, to relativistic postmodernism, to critical race theory. She also sounds a sobering wake-up call to the multitudes who call themselves Christians yet who naively embrace secular ideologies and worldly ethics.

In my opinion, Crains latest work is a masterful achievement, her best yet. If you read just one book to help you understand the present-day secular assaults on Christianityand the biblical answers to themmake it Faithfully Different .

Gregory Koukl, President, Stand to Reason (str.org); author of Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions

This book is faithfully different ! Clearly written, relevant, and winsome, it is a fair-minded defense of the Christian worldview. Read it, and you will find it to be of great benefit in understanding how you can withstand the cultural pressures that are swirling around you. A great book to help Christians, but also a wonderful gift to those who are on the margins, dealing with doubts and wondering how Christianity compares with the secular answers of our culture. Read it. Share it. And live it!

Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer , Pastor Emeritus, Moody Church, Chicago; author of We Will Not Be Silenced

In her earlier books, Natasha Crain has shown that she possesses a rare gift for unpacking complex ideas and making them clear and accessible. In Faithfully Different , she focuses on the struggles Christians face as society grows ever more secular. Those who follow Jesus are now a minority in Western culture, increasingly cast as extremists and treated as obstacles to social progress. Crain offers a reliable guide to navigating these new challenges.

Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth and Finding Truth

If ever there was a time to reaffirm biblical morality, revitalize our notions of biblical justice, and recommit to speaking the truth of the gospel, now is that time. Natasha Crains new book, Faithfully Different , is the right book written at the right moment. It will help you understand the challenges we face as a community of believers and equip you with the skills necessary to rise to these challenges. Its a must-read book for a time such as ours. Get a copy for yourself and every Christian you care about.

J. Warner Wallace , Dateline -featured cold-case detective; author of Person of Interest and Cold-Case Christianity

Are you being deceived? How would you know? The inherent problem with being deceived is that you dont know youre being deceived. Natasha Crain brilliantly exposes how our secular culture often deceives us about God, Jesus, the Bible, social justice, sex, love, and morality. She then points us back to truth so we can live faithfully different lives to achieve our most important missionknowing God through Jesus Christ and building His kingdom. Read this now!

Frank Turek, President, CrossExamined.org; coauthor of I Dont Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist

At Summit Ministries, we train tens of thousands of young adults every year in worldview and apologetics. I can tell you this: Natasha Crain gets it. She doesnt shy away from a biblical response to tough questions. Just as important, she has her finger on the pulse of the culture. She knows its language and how to speak truth into it. Faithfully Different makes a powerful and very readable case that if Christians will learn to think Christianlythat is, with a Christian worldviewthey can have a powerful impact in our confusing times. A bracing and timely challenge for the church.

Jeff Myers, PhD, President, Summit Ministries

Until recently, Christian ideals in America have gone largely unchallenged. But this is rapidly changing, which has left many Christians feeling opposed, silenced, and marginalized. How can we stand for biblical truth in a culture that views that truth to be bigoted, hateful, or harmful? Faithfully Different will give you the tools, resources, and inspiration to live out your Christian values in an increasingly secularized culture. This is the book every Christian needs in this cultural moment.

Alisa Childers, author of Another Gospel: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity ; host of The Alisa Childers Podcast

Faithfully Different is a timely wake-up call for Christians who want to live out their faith in our secular culture. This book is well researched, full of interesting stories, and grounded deeply in Scripture. I highly recommend it for Christians who want to know what it means practically to follow Jesus today.

Sean McDowell, PhD, professor of apologetics, Biola University; author or coauthor of nearly 20 books, including Chasing Love: Sex, Love, and Relationships in a Confused Culture

As a pastor, one of the biggest issues I see facing Christians today is that they dont know how much secularism has impacted their worldview and crippled their ability to think biblically about things. Faithfully Different not only successfully identifies and explains the relevant worldview issues but does so in a way everyone can understand. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand and defend the Christian worldview.

Mike Winger, President, BibleThinker Inc.

Natasha Crain is absolutely correct. Christian, the world you knew just five years ago has dramatically changed, and not just among unbelievers. An aggressive secularism is sweeping into our churches that is anything but neutral. In the last two years alone, Ive lost evangelical friends who not only promote ideas at odds with a biblical worldview, but who make agreement with those ideas an acid test for continued relationship. How can Christians live obediently and confidently in a world hell-bent on our total surrender? Natasha provides a refreshing answer that transcends arguing at a fever pitch: True Christians must be faithfully different. And that starts with understanding the secular worldviews that put fellow believers at risk in the first place. I thank God for this book. I now have a roadmap for living (and thriving!) as a minority.

Scott Klusendorf, President, Life Training Institute; author of The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture

Secularisms growing influence and power is like a raging river, breaching banks and flooding everything in its path. Wading slightly into it risks getting swept in and dragged along with others who have been less careful and those who have jumped in for the ride. In Faithfully Different , Natasha Crain discusses the elements in secularism that seduce us away from our lover Jesus. She also takes readers by the hand and helps them recalibrate their thinking to one that is grounded in the truth of the biblical worldview. This book is well written, refreshingly insightful, and is truly an enjoyable read!

Michael Licona, PhD, Associate Professor of Theology, Houston Baptist University

I cant express my excitement enough for the impact this book will have on peoples lives. I am not an alarmist, but I dont know if there has been another time when there has been more confusion about beliefs and truth, even amongst Christians. Many Christians dont know what they believe, so we see them accepting counterbiblical beliefs as normal. Natasha writes practical insights and shows why we must pay attention to the way so many are drifting from historical Christian truths. This is so incredibly critical, as what we believe impacts everythingour decisions, our values, our ethicseverything! I am so thankful for a practical guide to help us see clarity in the midst of so much fog and unclarity, why it matters, and what we can then do about it.