A Review of Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Marriage, Sex, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2015. 256 pp. $24.99. -- By: Colin J. Smothers

Journal: Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Volume: JBMW 20:2 (Fall 2015)
Article: A Review of Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Marriage, Sex, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2015. 256 pp. $24.99.
Author: Colin J. Smothers


A Review of Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Marriage, Sex, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2015. 256 pp. $24.99.

Colin Smothers

Operations Director
The Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Louisville, Kentucky

In the midst of the deafening, gale-force winds of the spirit of the age, someone has stood up, cleared his throat, and said, “We cannot be silent.”

We Cannot Be Silent, the title of Dr. Albert Mohler’s newest book, represents decades worth of academic and cultural engagement by one of the leading lights of our time on the topic of the sexual revolution and its consequences. While all the world seems bent on appeasing the sexual revolutionaries, Mohler, in Churchillian fashion, has fired a shot across the bow and issued a call-to-arms to the church.

Sounding The Alarm

Mohler begins his book by likening the effects of the sexual revolution to the effects of a devastating hurricane. In many ways, we are living in the aftermath of a massive moral and cultural storm that has hit in three waves: the sexual revolution beginning in the 50s and 60s, the subsequent gay rights revolution, and the ongoing transgender revolution.

With same-sex marriage now legal in all 50 states, churches and Christian communities are still trying to sort out how to respond properly with the gospel. And in the mean time, the hurricane siren is blaring, warning of the impending destruction coming in the wake of the ongoing transgender revolution.

“[T]he transgender revolution, even more than the movement for gay liberation, undermines the most basic structures of society” and undercuts “any understanding of human identity based in the Christian tradition, the trajectory of Western civilization, and the worldview that has shaped today’s world” (69). According to Mohler, “the transgender revolution represents one of the most difficult

pastoral challenges this generation of Christians will face” (69).

If this sounds apocalyptic to you, it is because Mohler intends it to. Our situation is indeed dire, and we need to heed the alarm.

Ideas Have Consequences

How did we get here?

Ideas have consequences, said philosopher Richard Weaver, and Mohler shows us just how consequential they can be. Supreme Court appointments matter. Books can change the world. Mohler understands these currents and undercurrents at work in the world and demonstrates his singular ability to confront them.

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