Lee Strobel has written 9 books by 2000; “The Case for Christ” is his No. 1 bestseller. He is a former atheist and legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. He is now a teaching pastor at Saddleback Valley Community Church. (The book has extensive notes and a large bibliography.)

This book has 8 main chapters, each based on an interview with a religious figure. Each chapter deals with one objection to being a Christian – in short: evil and suffering, miracles contradict science, evolution explains life, killing innocent children, Jesus is the only way, torturing people in hell, Christian oppression and violence, and I still have doubts. In each case the topic is examined and the conclusion is reached that the topic should not stand in the way of being a Christian. He interviews are mostly, but not all, with strict biblical literalists. It seemed to me he avoided (or chose not to include?) some tough questions that should have been included. I guess he did not want to offend fundamentalists. Lee Strobel's book is not very inspiring, but it is interesting to read how strict biblical literalists can maneuver through the bible so as to always see it as literal truth. I believe that limiting Christianity to biblical literacy is like seeing only in black-and-white. Seeing with the full and beautiful colors of the rainbow is what I seek and have found in the other books on religion that I have reviewed. (For example, see books 1 and by 17 by Huston Smith for rainbows.)