Uncommon Courage
Defending Truth and Freedom While There Is Still Time
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
Protecting Your Freedoms in Today's Cultural Warfare
In America, the seeds of tyranny have taken root—and we're reaching critical tipping points on many societal battlefronts. In Uncommon Courage, constitutional lawyer Keisha Toni Russell exposes the tactics of those who are undermining the very foundations of our country and explains how you can walk in faith while defending your freedoms.
Through an informed survey of today's divisive topics—including religion, racism, abortion, education, and beyond—Uncommon Courage will help you
recognize the significance of recent radical cultural shifts, identifying conditions that foster tyranny and explaining the laws designed to protect your libertyengage in compassionate but uncompromising conversations about freedom and faith, backed by a biblical worldview and constitutional principlesencourage fellow Christians to uphold the Bible as the founding wisdom of both America and the church and stand by their legal rights
Uncommon Courage will prepare you to have a powerful and positive impact in today's society. As you bless the hearts of others with the proclamation of God's truth, you can also influence both culture and government in ways that advance God's kingdom.
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America is "marching steadily toward tyranny" as the country casts aside its Christian heritage, according to this problematic debut treatise. Russell, a constitutional lawyer, argues that increasing "disdain" for Christianity (wrought by "the rise of Marxist ideology and secular humanism") and the church's political polarization have produced a climate of "soft totalitarianism" where liberal ideas are prized, "hatred of dissenters" is hidden under "the guise of helping and healing," and Christian values are being "dethron from politics, education, family life, and even Christianity itself." She discusses the "harms" of the 2011 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which guaranteed the right to marry for same-sex couples; Planned Parenthood ("We do not have the right to decide whether someone's life will be worth living"); and bans on praying in school. Even readers who can accept her selective interpretation of separation between church and state will be alienated by her alarmist language and shoddy reasoning. For example, she contends that "the issue with changing the definition of marriage or the normal expectation for sex is that to do so often results in no standard," which she suggests, without evidence, could somehow lead to rampant pedophilia. Inflammatory and hyperbolic, this misses the mark.
