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Along with the legal fight against abortion, we've seen crisis pregnancy centers develop. Along with concerns legal skirmishes over problems in state schools, we've seen a charter school movement develop and a proliferation of Christian schools and home schooling. All of these seem to be attempts to strengthen mediating institutions.

Especially since the collapse of communism in 1989 and 1991, there's been an emphasis on what many people call civil society. People are working on their own initiative to solve these sorts of problems, and they're not depending on the state for everything.

Crisis pregnancy centers are a potent way to deal with the abortion issue. And Christians have been at the forefront of that. What I said before about many Christians adopting a kind of utopian expectation about what can happen through politics is in some ways a caricature because Christians have been doing much more in the way of grassroots efforts.

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Political Visions & Illusions by David Koyzis is this month's selection for the Christianity Today Editor's Bookshelf. See also David Neff's extended review of the book.

Political Visions & Illusions is available from ChristianBook.com and other book retailers.

InterVarsity Press has more information on the book, including excerpts of the preface and introduction.

Koyzis runs a weblog called "Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist."

Redeemer University College's website has both professional and personal pages for Koyzis.

Earlier Editor's Bookshelf selections can be found here.

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