Book Review – Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age By Rosaria Butterfield

What Butterfield does in this book is not only give the biggest issues with identity and self-deception of sexuality today (2023) but also keeps it Gospel focus – which is the cure.

First of all, it has footnotes so it’s already riding high. Next, she defines most of her terms right off the bat. I had to remind myself that I already knew a lot on this topic and wanted to read this for the intended audience. There were maybe a few words where I thought it would also be good to include like “gender” in this first chapter. However, she did come to talk about the Freuding influence in mixing up sex and gender which is an important discussion point.

The five lies she’s identifying in her book are the following:

1) Homosexuality is normal

2) Being a spiritual person is kinder than being a biblical Christian

3) Feminism is good for the world and the Church

4) Transgenderism is normal

5) Modesty is an outdated burden that serves male dominance and holds women back

Each topic is molded to a personal story or concerns her personal journey to faith which adds more than just looking at a collection of current event stories to shake your head at. For being at 300 pages, this book does a lot of work in a good amount of time. While this book seems to, at first, be one for a Christian to be informed about the current day issues, this also appears to be targeted at those wanting to see the full, Christian response to the topic at hand. While being spiritual and modesty seem like topics that don’t necessarily belong in the camp with the other three, Butterfield does a good job of laying out the throughline that ties them all together.

Butterfield is a skilled writer that shows here. You might read familiar passages from her previous books here of her personal story but that’s also probably why you’ve picked up her book too. The solution of the Gospel tend to feel a bit longer in laying out the answer but one has to see that the audience isn’t just for Christians but for non-Christians or Christians needing help with providing the world a full answer from a biblical perspective.

This was very well done and very well balanced. Butterfield provides enough current events stories to inform someone who hasn’t paid attention in the last seven years what the issue is. She gives enough personal anecdotes to provide actual situations that any of us may encounter. She, also, gives a full biblical perspective rooted in the Scripture of how Christians should respond and a worldview of why we shouldn’t be surprised this is happening. A good book to mark up and give to others.