Southern Baptist pastor and leader Russell Moore recently highlighted one of his favorite books of all time—a series of essays by the southern novelist Walker Percy titled Signposts in a Strange Land. Moore wrote, "It is hard to overstate how much this book has shaped my ministry. First of all, Percy articulated what I sensed was wrong with nominal [Christianity]. It was, he argued, not Christian at all but rather Stoic … But, most of all, in this book Percy taught me that the collapse of [the political power and outward display of] Christendom is not a catastrophe. As Percy wrote:

The good news is that in becoming the minority in all countries, a remnant, the Church also becomes a world church in the true sense, bound to no culture, not even to the West of the old Christendom, by no means triumphant but rather a pilgrim church witnessing to a world in travail and yet a world to which it will appear ever stranger and more outlandish.