Bridget Varley's Reviews > Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

*This 2-star rating is largely due to my personal disagreement on many of their positions made throughout this book.*

1. From the beginning I felt a very defensive stance from the authors. They very often state Christianity is being attacked and disregarded (as a Christian myself, I disagree), yet they later say Christianity is overwhelmingly the majority religion in the US. They made sure to mention ALL the good work that gets done because of Christians and it felt like they were just trying to win praise from others.
2. These two authors present much of their own research and, to me, it seems they are very much posing their research to get the answers they want to find. It seems biased from the start.
3. I didn’t find the authors to be very inclusive of others. They seemed to shame people who don’t fit their evangelical viewpoints, even indicating a lack of respect for other faith groups. I, even as a Catholic, felt a little attacked for having more “modern” views of religion
4. It seemed their views are to get evangelical Christianity to be the forefront of the US, in government, in media, in all generations. I understand this is a core value of being an evangelical Christian; however, as a non-evangelical, it’s an aggressive stance I don’t appreciate. (Goes back to the lack of inclusiveness)
5. Finally, this book will be popular to other like-minded evangelical Christians. If the goal was to bring non-Christians to conversation, I thought it did the opposite.