Book Review – Christ Over Culture – Raising Christian Kids to Stand in a Postmodern World by Andrea Crum

For most parents who aren’t online in the backwaters of the internet and have seen the oncoming tsunami of wokeism and the various other tentacles of it, this book offers a great overview of the issues along with some helpful talking points of discussing wth your kids of any age. What I think this book does well is start the conversation Christians need to have about having and developing a holistic Christian worldview and using several of these important and currently relevant topics as a gateway to do so. This isn’t using the jargon of presuppositionalism and philosophical worldview vocabs I know as a nature of my studies – but all signs point to leading one down the correct path of not just responding to these attacks on God’s sovereignty but preparing one’s entire family to be ready to give an answer and respond to any competing worldviews that come next. That’s where the biggest benefit Crum provides to the Christian reader.

Crum also discusses with welcome frankness the topics of feminism, the rainbow spectrum, transgenderism, and the other avenues of those topics. She does so without being hyper-extreme examples, graphic details, or with pearl-clutching; yet she doesn’t mince words with the reality being faced. She balances the need to state the problem and solution within a reasonable scope of a book that will be willingly read by concerned parents looking for advice – so the page count is a benefit here. I would have liked a little more in the way of action points but the ones presented are specific and biblical. Personally, the need to talk about worldview building is a need but that might have added a few more chapters, and is understandable why it didn’t happen, so no heavy knock against that. Overall, a good primer for parents wondering what the heck is going on and how to respond. Plus, definitions of words which is always welcomed, and now, you too, can know what a furry is and I’m not the only one who wince at its cringe.