Interview: Rebecca McLaughlin

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this interview from November 2019, Rebecca McLaughlin talks about some of the inspiration for writing her book Confronting Christianity and some of the insight she's gained in her life that led her to address the hardest questions that Christians face today. As she talks about her experiences, you will learn how and why she believes that Christianity is objectively the best hope for the modern world. Interview hosted by Chuck Armstrong. Today's podcast episode is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	For many in our culture today, Biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea, challenging some of their deepest beliefs.
0:10.0	In her book Confronting Christianity, 12 hard questions for the world's largest religion.
0:15.0	Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin explores the hard questions that keep many people from considering faith in Christ.
0:21.0	Listen as Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin explores how we can share our faith in a way that is relevant, when some, and true.
0:29.0	The co-founder of Vocable Communications, a firm focused on data and speech.
0:34.0	Rebecca McLaughlin has long been drawn to helping individuals tell their stories in the most compelling way possible.
0:40.0	Her own story has seen her serve as the vice president of content for the Veritas Forum, going to Oak Hill College to study theology,
0:48.0	and earning her PhD in Renaissance literature at Cambridge.
0:52.0	In April 2019, she released the book Confronting Christianity, 12 hard questions for the world's largest religion.
0:59.0	Rebecca, thank you so much for chatting today.
1:02.0	It's great to be here.
1:03.0	So I'd love to hear just kind of right out of the gate why you released the book now.
1:10.0	Why do you think the church and even culture needs this book in this moment?
1:17.0	In 1994, the historian Mark Null published a book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, in which he made the bold claim that The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind is that there is not much of an Evangelical Mind.
1:29.0	I think since then, if that were true in 1994, I don't think it's true today.
1:35.0	God has raised up thousands of Christian professors at some of the top universities in the world, in all of the fields that are supposed to have discredited, disproved, or sort of blown apart the Christian faith.
1:47.0	And the nine years that I spent at the Veritas Forum, I was able to actually focus on earth things, some of these folks getting to know them, learning from their assert, hearing their stories.
1:57.0	And so the book is very much an opportunity to showcase their work.
2:02.0	I think these guys are the greatest untapped resource of the global church.
2:06.0	And I guess my attempt in the book was to curate some of their work and insights.
2:11.0	I think that's something that's needed today.
2:13.0	So you don't think there's a scandal, at least in the way that Noel put it in 94 anymore today.
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