I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with author, speaker, and Christian apologist Sean McDowell.

His new book is a Rebels Manifesto, choosing truth, real justice, and love amid the noise of today's world.

We need apologetics.

We always have.

We need people of debate.

We need all sorts of tools.

But as a whole, as culture shifted, there's such a need right now for a gracious, kind,

understanding first approach. That's why I try to do apologetics the way that I do.

At first glance, Sean McDowell's new book, A Rebel's Manifesto, doesn't seem all that rebellious.

It's a book that advocates standing for what's right, developing the disciplines

to become a good person, loving your neighbor, and thinking Christianly. But then I remembered

George Orwell's famous line, speaking the truth in a time of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

And when I remember that line, the title of Sean's book started to make a little more sense.

Sean McDowell is a popular youth speaker, and this book is written for young people.

But what I found helpful about the book

was its short, sharp, satisfying discussions of such tough topics as homosexuality, pornography,

abortion, immigration, guns and violence, the environment, and other hot-button issues.

I read these chapters strengthened in my own convictions and better equipped to share them with

others.

Now, that Sean McDowell is able to take tough concepts and make them understandable without

dumbing them down, shouldn't be surprising. After all,

he's the son of Josh McDowell, whose books on apologetics, such as more than a carpenter

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