Redemption Afoot

A Review of Restoring All Things: God's Audacious Plan to Change the World Through Everyday People

Given a culture that's increasingly marginalizing Christians and looking on them with hostility, it's tempting to either give up in despair or retreat into some Christian bubble. If you're feeling down or dejected that way, then WORLD magazine's Warren Cole Smith and the Colson Center's John Stonestreet have a most encouraging message for you: God is at work—and he invites you to join him.

First, they remind us that God—who does not change with cultural tides—is all about the "re" words we find throughout Scripture—reconciliation, restoration, redemption, and renewal. "'Re'...