The latest issue of Touchstone Magazine contains my review of David Lyle Jeffrey’s excellent book, We Were a Peculiar People Once: Confessions of an Old-Time Baptist. Part memoir, part prophetic critique, this book is uproariously funny as well as insightful and devastating. You can read the review, and I hope you read the book. In short, Jeffrey rightfully reminds us that the church’s task is not to be cool but to be different. Despite good intentions, we do not make progress in reaching the world by trying to show how cool we are or how much we are just like them. Jesus told us clearly, “Do not be like them” (Matt 6:8). But it seems, too often we cannot bear the scorn of the world.