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This is a snippet from an article on Christianity today by Tim Stafford. Please read the whole article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What made you decide to write about apologetics at this time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clearly we\u2019re at a stage in Western history where we need the church to be persuasive. Public life has grown more secular. Private worlds have become more diverse, and we have a mounting hostility against us. If ever Christians at large and evangelicals in particular needed to be persuasive with people who are not open, it\u2019s now. So I thought it was the time to write.<\/p>\n

Fool\u2019s Talk is the fruit of many decades of thinking. I owe a huge debt to C. S. Lewis, from whom I came to faith; to Francis Schaeffer, who introduced me to the discipline of apologetics; and to Peter Berger, the sociologist, who has probably shaped my mind more than any other living person. My approach is a mixture of the three of them.<\/p>\n

[read the rest at Christianity Today<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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