After working for several years at a center for women in crisis, Louise Perry changed her mind about morality. She is a writer for the Daily Mail and is a staunch advocate for women’s rights. She published a bestseller, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (2022).
Perry values Christian morality, even though she does not profess to be a Christian. “I find Christianity very, very compelling intellectually and emotionally,” she said on Justin Brierley’s podcast. “I think if I had been born some centuries ago… I would have embraced the faith that I swam in at the time. But given that I wasn’t, it’s now quite hard to sign up for all of it. Not just the resurrection. There are so many supernatural claims within Christianity, which my disenchanted brain can’t quite manage.”
I get it. The cultural river you are raised in is a strong current. Yet to her credit, Perry has seen what is good for women and recognizes Christianity gets it right. What she has yet to embrace are its “supernatural claims” rejected by her “disenchanted brain.”
We enter this world as innocent children prone to enchantment. Little girls roleplay motherhood and little boys are superheroes. One is a princess of the realm and the other a defender of the weak. But somehow, the rites of passage into adulthood mean leaving behind the imagination of what might be, as contributing nothing to reality. The grand disenchantment is that what you see is all there is.
The people in Jesus’ hometown had the receipts showing “God with us.” Yet, they could only take offense at Him. He wondered at their unbelief. His disciples saw Him feed the multitudes, but they gained no insight from it (Mark 6). The evidence kept coming, challenging people to embrace the enchanted life.
You have the evidence, too. “Since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen” (Rom. 1:20). But there’s more. If that’s all we had, we might conclude only that God is a great artist, per C.S. Lewis. He continues, “You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.”
Perry’s movement toward Christian morality means she is listening to a conversation with God, who loves the same women for whom she seeks protection and justice. That same God brought to us the hope of resurrection and the reality of eternity. He stands ready to rescue you from the currents of unbelief so you can enjoy the enchanted life. “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts” (Heb. 4:7).