More praise...

... for Mary Eberstadt's book, The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism:

A century ago, you would have seen a stare of puzzlement if you had mentioned that an apologetic book "was fascinating and absorbing." At that time most apologists would take their pipe and point you to an abstruse dusty tome full of perplexing notions and profound truths written for the academician. Not so in the alluring and sinewy "The Loser Letters," by Mary Eberstadt. This charming volume is astonishing in its subtleness and philosophic intricacy as Ms. Eberstadt defies the philosophical naiveté, rational gullibility, and epistemic dishonesty of those who assail theism. Wily, satirical in its veiled apologetic that establishes those who are dubbed the "dulls" are not just brighter than the Brights, but are actually the ones who have the rational gravitas. ...

The Loser Letters is a lucid, unceasingly interesting, witty, cogent, and unique volume that will make a memorable gift to an atheist or a believer – great for the long plane ride or a sunny day at the park.

Read the entire review, written by apologist Mike Robinson on his blog, "The Lord God Exists". You can read the opening chapter of Eberstadt's book on Ignatius Insight.

(I would point out, as an aside, that one of the most fascinating and absorbing works of apologetics ever written was, in fact, published about a century ago, in 1908: G. K. Chesterton's wonderful book, Orthodoxy.)