Is our nation on a downward spiral? Can the corrosion of our culture be reversed? Or are we experiencing the end of God's blessing due to our depravity?
For the past 50 years our culture has undergone a monumental shift as the media has pulled people into a whole new way of thinking. Gone is the idea that absolutes exist. Instead our leaders and educators preach a belief that everything is relative....including truth. How do we respond to such muddled thinking? How do we present the one true Truth to a culture that worships diversity of thought and morals? In this concise, easy-to-read book, Ann Tatlock answers these questions and more:
What is a biblical worldview?
What is The Great Literary Conversation?
How has revisionism affected the Church?
How has relativism affected our culture?
What is postmodern literature?
What is our greatest task as Christian writers?
Take a stand for truth. Take a pen and write.
Praise for Writing to a Post-Christian World
"Ann Tatlock writes and teaches from experience. As an award-winning novelist, she is a practitioner of the artistic skills it takes to share deep messages through enthralling stories. As a guest professor at universities and as a keynote speaker at writers' conferences, she provides pragmatic advice on logic, creativity, organization, and style that enables developing writers to sharpen their skills as communicators. Here now, in this succinct text, are precise lessons from a master teacher and author." - Dennis E. Hensley, Ph.D., Director of the Professional Writing Dept., Taylor University
"Ann Tatlock has a gift with words, and she uses that gift in this book to support the creativity of the believer, to bolster us with the truth and help us keep moving forward with our stories." - Hannah Alexander, Award-winning novelist
"Ann Tatlock's Writing to a Post-Christian World is an amazingly clear, meaty and readable essay. I was especially touched by her analysis of why Christian fiction can be a powerful call to believe in God, a way to soften hearts, hardened and confused by the world. Well said, Ann!" -Lyn Cote
"For me, not so much because I am (or in my case, am not) seeking direction or purpose as a Christian writer, but because it spoke to me as a reader. A reader who loves word-pictures through illustrations and personal stories. I would probably never pick up an article (much less a book) on the topic of "post-modernism". Though I am thoroughly enjoying "The Truth Project", I am not enthused over conversations surrounding words like "relativism", world-view, post-modern thinking, etc... But after reading Ann's booklet, I don't think I've ever read anything that explained it so vividly to me without boring me out of my mind. I will remember that post-modernism= a culture that "shuns" absolutes. And yes, statements like Oprah's are nothing more than "wishful thinking". I loved the "prime meridian" analogy and will use it next time someone tells me that there are no absolutes or that people who live by them are narrow-minded.
"What a charge and commission we have as Christian to speak the truth whether in spoken or written word. An effective communicator always recognizes their audience (and in our case-- the post-modern world...made up of unbelievers and sick choirs). We need to read pieces like Ann's to give us clarification and spur us on to good works!" - Angie Martin
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