Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

In the 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. The urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade-to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it.

In his magnum opus, Os...