1. What view of Christian morality was expressed by the Supreme Court in its 2013 Windsor decision? What view of religious liberty was expressed by the US Commission on Civil Rights in 2016? Have you heard the same attitudes expressed anywhere else? Give an example or two from your own experience. How would you respond?
2. Explain how a global secularism is emerging. What are the implications for missions? Sometimes people have asked me if my books on worldview apply only to American culture. I tell them what one missionary told me: that American culture is being exported around the globe! As a result, by reading Love Thy Body you will learn how to interact with people living anywhere in the global community.
3. Explain the divided concept of truth. In the past, atheists used to argue that Christianity is false; today they are more likely to argue that it is not even a matter of true or false but only a matter of personal feelings and experience. That is, they place it in the upper story of personal “values” (see endnote 13). How should this change the way we present Christianity to people?
4. Give a brief explanation of the two streams in Western thought—the Enlightenment tradition versus the Romantic movement. How are they related to the fact/value split? Which stream of thought is summarized by the term modernism and which is summarized by the term postmodernism?