Excellent. I had it in audiobook and it was great but I think it's a book that would be better in print as far as learning from it.

A first introduction to apologetics for my kids.

Good explanation of how to share the Gospel in a postmodern world.

Every explanation of life has a starting point. Pearcey makes the case that in contrast to the biblical explanation, all others miss the mark by taking one dimension of life and make it the substitute for a transcendent God. The inevitable result is a reductionism - everything is reduced to that one thing leading to a lower view of life. Her analogy of a small box was striking - when we shrink the reality of life down to one thing, e.g. the material, the empirical, the rational, the community - we end up with contradictions - there are realities to the human experience that are left sticking out of the box because it was made too small. Pearcey goes to great lengths to expose those contradictions and does so most effectively by quoting those who have settled into their small boxes but in the end cannot actually live there. As one example, she quotes Rodney Brooks, professor emeritus at MIT whose official position is that a human being is nothing but a machine, "a bag of skin full of biomolecules". But Brooks goes on to say that with regards to his own children: "That is not how I treat them. They have my unconditional love, the furthest one might be able to get from rational analysis".
This book is now at the top of my list in the area of apologetics. Though it does have the feel of a conversation that would occur in academic circles and not in work sites and neighborhoods where most of us live.

Extremely practical! I listened to the audio version and I think I need to buy a physical copy and follow the study guide.