Review: America at the Crossroads: Explosive Trends Shaping America's Future and What You Can Do about It

America at the Crossroads: Explosive Trends Shaping America's Future and What You Can Do about It by George Barna
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Barna has given us an easy to read title, which the popular level audience can easily digest. This is quite a feat, given the heaviness of heart of the content of which he compiled, edited and written with. The presentation of the brilliant charts and tables were brilliant - data would be easily read and compared (especially for the readers who do not enjoy a wall of text). Yet interestingly, this book is also potentially very useful to the scholar or academic's. Whether you agree or disagree with his research and conclusion, the wealth of statistics is laid out categorically - all ready to be churned and transformed to the footnotes of one's research paper.

Layman, pastor or scholar, you would observe trends in your church, city, country and perhaps even worldwide. This book would provide plenty of food for thought; the demographics and findings could possibly be useful reference points for other first world christian communities. I think the book would nevertheless be useful for deliberation of one's community and therefore ministry.

Published just before the 2016 US Presidential Elections, Barna provides his analysis of his countrymen and their worldviews. It thus provides a snapshot of history prior to the watershed election result.

I received this book from the Baker Publishing Group's Blogger Team Program for the purposes of providing an unbiased review. All views are my own.

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