How Christians Can Succeed Today

The first Christians confronted a cultural environment vastly more hostile than today’s. They had no powerful backers, very little money and numbered no more than a few hundred. Yet they revolutionised the ancient world and spread their movement far and wide.

There is a deep, pervasive crisis of meaning and purpose across all Western societies today. Greg Sheridan encourages us to listen to the voices of the early Christians and emulate their commitment, integrity, resilience and smarts. He shows how early Christians built communities, met persecution with courage and grace, dispensed universal mercy during plagues, pioneered equality for women, and redefined the nature and purpose of the human experience, always with Jesus Christ at the centre of their lives.

He also charts the journeys of modern Christians who live by those same values today: Leila and Danny Abdallah, who met great suffering with great forgiveness, young people making a radical commitment to faith, country pastors, and Christians inspired to welcome and help the homeless. He profiles cultural leaders who communicate Christianity with great effect, including Marilynne Robinson, Jordan Peterson, Bishop Robert Barron, and Pastor Mark Varughese.

Bio
Greg Sheridan AO is the foreign editor of The Australian newspaper and a regular television and radio commentator, including for the Sky News and ABC which describes him as “one of Australia’s most respected and influential analysts of domestic and international politics.”

He is the author of the bestselling God Is Good for You: A Defence of Christianity in Troubled Times (2018) and Christians: the urgent case for Jesus in our world (2021) among many other books on international affairs.