I have been listening to Brett Cooper since her first year at the DW, and I absolutely appreciate her speaking style and love for culture (especially as a fellow literature-liking gal in her 20s). I love many of her conservative yet balanced takes on issues—a breath of fresh air! I know other gals my age who enjoy her, too.
My complaint—and if anyone on Brett’s team is reading this, please note I say this with respect and grace—is that she expresses postmodernist ideas. This matters for Christians because in situations like the Chip and Joanna Gaines issue, she wants Christians to not be very bothered (or even convicted) at compromise.
Biblical Christianity, as it is laid out in the Bible, is worth standing for and dying for. And, yes, we need to offer grace to those who fall, but when we say let those like Chip and Joe be and condemn condemnation itself* (whether they claim to be Christians or not) we are also agreeing to the idea that various truths and religions can coexist in the world. And that is postmodernism, not John 14:6. When Brett discusses how she doesn’t care what her audience does, only as long it is faithful to their belief systems, I get it—and to some extent I appreciate this statement—but it leans into postmodernism if left unchecked, because it assumes that you can live how you want, and it assumes that that’s OK. But from a Christian perspective, or really any religious perspective, this ideology should not be accepted: if multiple truths and multiple moralities exist, then truth really cannot exist, and Christianity cannot exist (why would Jesus die, why would God give us a law and then moral code, why would Paul write letters with application, why would sin exist; and take your alternative traditional religion with its own ways of living, etc.)
Again, I say all this respectfully, and I ask that anyone reading this will consider how important it is that Christians do not swing to a postmodernist mentality (even saying this for myself!) Anything cannot go. Multiple belief systems cannot simply coexist. Religions always contradict and their moralities contradict, and when Christians agree to that ideology, we lose the plot and John 14:6.
*Note: Please note that I understand differing takes on the Chip and Joe issue; however, to downplay any attempt at calling them out seems to be a misstep and guided by postmodernism rather than forgiveness because it seems to support the sin issue.
