THE SECULAR CREED:
Engaging Five Contemporary Claims
By Rebecca McLaughlin
The Gospel Coalition. 109 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 0 999 284 308
Rebecca McLaughlin obviously used lockdown well; publishing three of her own books last year and writing a chapter in another. All this after her breakout year as an author in 2019 when her first book Confronting Christianity came out and won Christianity Today’s 2020 Book of the Year.
The Secular Creed burnishes her burgeoning reputation as a foremost popular Christian apologist for our day. Written since the eruption of the Black Lives Matter Movement, she looks, in five short but heavily packed chapters, at slogans that had been appearing in some US neighbourhoods. Such as: In this house we believe that Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, Gay Rights are Civil Rights, Women’s Rights are Human Rights and Transgender Women are Women. These, slogans, McLaughlin believes, form the basis of a secular creed which is sweeping across (at least) the Western world today.
