Apostle to the Disillusioned

For it is far more: a ruminative examination of the state of Christianity in our late-modern times, a plea for a shift in attitude about how Christians see the secular world around them, a work of ecumenism, a work of (subtle) evangelization. While the book is written from a Catholic perspective, other Christians and Christian institutions of all stripes have something to learn from it, not least American Christian colleges and universities. [...]as alluded to already, the church must engage in honest selfcriticism, especially in areas where it richly deserves criticism: e. g., the sex abuse crisis, overweening clericalism, shoddy homiletics. [...]he sometimes exhibits what I would call a blame-the-churchfirst mentality when discussing contemporary secularism, atheism, apathy, and so on.