Next week, I will have the privilege, Deo volente, of speaking at a breakout session at TGC23, sponsored by InterVarsity Press. For those of you who support this newsletter, here is a manuscript of what I’m planning to say there. (And, for those of you who actually know me well, you know I never stay with my manuscript, and thus this is merely a general guide to what I will most likely say!)
Witnesses in the Wilderness
Christians have always been “strangers and exiles on the earth,” in search of a better city (Hebrews 11:10, 13, 16; 13:14; 1 Peter 1:1; 2:11). And yet, in the face of surging secularity, this sense of exile can seem more palpable. The public practice of Christianity is no longer presumed to be good for the social order, and points of commonality that once joined us with our neighbors have fractured into political polarities.
For many of us, these pressures and polarities have caused us to feel a little less like residents here and a lot more like exiles in a wilderness.
So how do we live as witnesses in the wilderness?
That is the task of apologetics today.
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