{"id":31028,"date":"2015-02-24T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31028"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:39:30","slug":"book-review-one-of-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/book-review-one-of-the-few\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: One of the Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/onefew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" \/>Jason Ladd<br \/>\nLadd Publications<\/p>\n<p>The title and cover imagery of <em>One of the Few: A Marine Fighter Pilot&#8217;s Reconnaissance of the Christian Worldview<\/em> recall the iconic slogan of the US Marine Corps: <em>The Few. The Proud<\/em>. But the book is about far more than the US Marines. <em>One of the Few<\/em> is also about &#8220;one of the few&#8221; Christians and fighter pilots in today&#8217;s society.<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the Few<\/em> is not a traditional book about fighter pilots. The three-part book does chronicle US Marine Jason Ladd&#8217;s journey to become a fighter pilot, and his flying as a fighter pilot in combat. More central to the book, however, is the story of Ladd&#8217;s journey to becoming a Christ-follower, a journey that only starts with Ladd&#8217;s tortured admission he was living as an atheist for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Ladd comes to that realization through <!--more-->an assessment of his worldview, and that paradigm characterizes much of the latter two-thirds of the book as he analyzes social and cultural issues through the lens of reason, Christianity, and the military &#8212; with the uniquely added depth provided by his &#8220;experience&#8221; as an atheist. As a point of comparison, <em>Christian Fighter Pilot is not an Oxymoron<\/em> speaks directly to the issues and idiosyncrasies of the fighter pilot world &#8212; things like alcohol, profanity, ethics, and war, for example. <em>One of the Few<\/em> speaks to those issues on a much broader level as they apply to Christians and society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In that regard, <em>One of the Few<\/em> uses Ladd&#8217;s experience as a fighter pilot to provide an engaging background to a book that at once challenges non-Christians and Christians alike to understand the worldview they have &#8212; whether they realize it or not &#8212; and then to seriously consider the eternal consequences\u00a0of that worldview.<\/p>\n<p>As a Christian commentary on salvation, social issues, the church, and apologetics &#8212; discussed through the lens of a military fighter pilot &#8212; <em>One of the Few<\/em> is an excellent and engaging read.<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the Few<\/em> is <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Recommended<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the Few<\/em> is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2J77XRy\">Amazon<\/a>. <em>(This site is an Amazon Associate and may earn from qualifying purchases made through Amazon referrals.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Ladd Ladd Publications The title and cover imagery of One of the Few: A Marine Fighter Pilot&#8217;s Reconnaissance of the Christian Worldview recall the iconic slogan of the US Marine Corps: The Few. The Proud. But the book is about far more than the US Marines. One of the Few is also about &#8220;one of the few&#8221; Christians and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[20,469,96,5285,5038,149,2,5039],"class_list":["post-31028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-and-media-reviews","tag-atheism","tag-book-review","tag-christian","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-jason-ladd","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-one-of-the-few"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44879,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions\/44879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}