The Grace Effect

<P><B></B><B>Simply defined the 'grace effect' is an observable phenomenon<I>-that life is demonstrably better where authentic Christianity flourishes.</I><I></I></B></P><P>What does Christianity give us beyond televangelists potlucks and bad basketball leagues?  Not much according to the secular Left.  The world they say would be a better place without it.  </P><P>Historian and Christian apologist Larry Taunton has spent much of his career refuting just this sort of thinking but when he encounters Sasha a golden-haired Ukranian orphan girl whose life has been shaped by atheistic theorists he discovers an unlikely champion for the transforming power of grace.  </P><P>Through the narrative of Sasha's redemption we see the false promises of socialism; the soul-destroying influence of unbelief; and how a society cultivates its own demise when it rejects the ultimate source of grace.  We see in short the kind of world the atheists would give us: a world without Christianity-<I>cold pitiless and graceless</I>.</P><P>And yet as Sasha shows us it is a world that is not beyond the healing power of the grace effect.  Occasionally infuriating often amusing but always inspiring <I>The Grace Effect</I> will have you cheering for the courageous little girl who shamed the academic elitists of our day.</P><P>This highly readable book is a collection of powerful insights into the long-term consequences of spiritual indifference and above all a remarkable example of how to conquer it.</P><P>-<I> Dr. Olivera Petrovich research psychologist University of Oxford</I></P><P> </P><P>What would a world without Christianity look like? We don't have to guess because such a world <I>does </I>exist: it exists in the current and former Communist bloc. Through the inspiring story of a little girl born in Eastern Europe and now living in America Larry Taunton draws a sharp contrast between the life-giving influence of Christianity and the worn out theories of atheism and radical secularism.  The effect--<I>The Grace Effect--</I>is nothing less than powerful and moving.</P><P>-- <I>Dinesh D'Souza former White House policy analyst fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and current president of Kings College  </I></P><P></P>