You don’t need a PhD in theology to defend your Christian beliefs. Nor do you need to be an intellectual like Josh McDowell or Ravi Zacharias. You just need common sense and a little knowledge of how Christianity has impacted the world for the better, despite prevailing assumptions that faith is the opposite of reason and that Christianity is guilty of all kinds of crimes, including religious intolerance today. Developed to help college students understand why Christianity makes sense, and how faith is not a blind leap in the dark but rests upon a bedrock of reason, this basic apologetic draws upon history, science and cultural studies. Our first universities were founded by Christians. Hospitals, the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, International Humanitarian Law, numerous charities and our American Republic are the direct result of Christians living out their faith. Some of the greatest thinkers, scientists and artists throughout history – Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mozart, Beethoven, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Sojourner Truth – were men and women who followed God’s mandate to be salt and light in the world

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About the Author

Lynn and Michael Borich teach at Missouri State University in the rustic heart of the Ozarks, but teaching has taken them from Iowa to Montana to California to Wisconsin to Florida, to two years in the Peoples Republic of China. In China they taught English at Qingdao University. Lynn's insightful China blog is available via their website: www.publishtheword.com