Christians must utilize storytelling, persuasiveness and courage to engage hostile culture
by Brandon Showalter, Christian Post:
Amid an increasingly hostile political culture, scholar Ryan Anderson is urging Christians to utilize the power of storytelling while demonstrating courage and persuasiveness.
In an interview with The Christian Post, the newly-appointed president of the Washington-based Ethics & Public Policy Center, who was formerly with the Heritage Foundation, emphasized that the most important virtues for Christians to have as they contend for what is good and true in the public square are courage and persuasiveness.
“We need courage because many of the truths we have to bear witness to are unpopular truths,” Anderson said. “So it’s going to be truths about human dignity which is grounded in the fact that we are created in the image and likeness of God.
“And that we are created male and female and are created for each other in marriage.”
Christians need to be witnessing to the fact that no one is expendable, he added, a reality that has been highlighted with the COVID-19 pandemic. Christians also must contend for an economy that works for everyone, not just one that works for people at the top of the pay scale, people in the knowledge sector.
“One of the things that we’ve seen is that COVID hasn’t been too bad for white-collar workers. It’s been pretty bad for blue-collar workers and the unequal distributions of the burdens and benefits of our economic life.”
Anderson argued against such tactics as “own the libs” and instead urged Christians to work to change hearts.
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