Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852

In a classic BreakPoint commentary, the late Chuck Colson highlighted the power of stories to capture imaginations and move hearts and minds. As an example, he cited Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel that powerfully awakened readers to the evils of slavery and motivated them to take action.

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Stowe “used her creative ability to teach the message that all men and women are created in God’s image, and are infinitely precious to Him.” Colson continued, “Twentieth [and twenty-first] century Christians ought to use the same strategy as we fight modern social evils like abortion, pornography, and the breakdown of the family. We must use books, film, music, and television to shock Americans out of their complacency.”

Brian Godawa is a talented writer who has been doing this his entire career. Especially noteworthy is his recently-published book Cruel Logic. In this gripping, true-to-life novel, Godawa pulls back the curtain to reveal the ugly but logical place to which society’s application of critical race theory and the relativistic platform on which it rests will lead. Readers should be aware ahead of time that the author uses strong language in many instances. Writing realistically, he rips off the mask that otherwise would veil the horrors of the consequences of the secular, godless worldview society now embraces.

As was Uncle Tom’s Cabin more than a century ago, Cruel Logic is a wake-up call to a nation, and even more specifically, to American Christians. We are traveling a road that surely will lead to national demise, but it isn’t too late to change course.

And the place to start making that important change is in one’s own heart.

Written by B. Nathaniel Sullivan, this article is an edited version of a review of Cruel Logic submitted to amazon.com.

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