The Last Christian: A Novel

this is a story of Abigail Caldwell, who lived in the jungle her whole life with her missionary parents. Its 2088 AD & she has survived a mysterious disease that killed everyone in her village. This leaders her to America, only to discover a nation where Christianity has completely died out. Abby sees this new world, that involves virtual reality, the dissolving of marriage, the way education has changed, to the scientific ways of thinking of the world. Personally, this book freaked me out, because the ways this books describes how Christianity dissolved in America are things that are very real & have potential to becoming true. The way it shows how the next generation saw no real change in people who accepted Christ, how mega churches were built only for entertainment & not reaching to the lost... even gives "historical" records of politics which are from our times of George W. Bush & political decisions that are happening in our world now, & how things were accepted so easily that it turned into a "so what" nation of "anything goes"... I really was wrapped up in the story... I'm not a big science fiction sorta person & I thought it would be hard for me to get into this book, but I was totally swept up in the story. The ending, I will admit, I had to struggle with in knowing what was happening, but its only because my sci-fi-brain isn't up to speed with those things... but I did get it, understand it, & was surprised at the ending... not at all what I expected.. & I love that in a book...

When Abby's emerges from her isolated village, she finds a world where Christianity is all but extinct. Helped and hindered by new-found friends and re-discovered family, she does her best to follow her grandparent's exhortation to bring Christianity back to America. Meanwhile, scientists have created an artificial brain and are close to ensuring eternal life. Loaded with mystery, action, suspense and spiritual insight, The Last Christian is an incredible read.