num_pages: 336
description: Are transgender people discovering their authentic self? Is the hookup culture really liberating? Does abortion lead to equality for women? Does homosexuality contradict our biological sex?In Love Thy Body bestselling and award-winning author Nancy Pearcey takes on the hard questions about life and sexuality. A two-time winner of the ECPA Gold Medallion Award Pearcey has been hailed by The Economist as America's preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual. In Love Thy Body she offers a respectful but riveting exposE of the secular worldview that lies behind trendy slogans and political talking points. A former agnostic Pearcey is a sensitive guide to the secular ideas that shape current debates. She empowers readers to intelligently and compassionately engage today's most controversial moral and social challenges.In a surprise shattering of stereotypes Pearcey demonstrates that while secularism promises much in reality it delivers little. She turns the tables on stereotypes that portray Christianity as harsh and bigoted and invites a fresh look at its holistic life-affirming principles: it is a worldview that matches the real world and fits with human experience.All along Pearcey keeps readers entranced with gripping stories of real people wrestling with hard questions in their own lives--sharing their pain their struggles and their triumphs.
language: English
title: Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality
publisher: Baker Books