She learns that in order for her faith to survive in a postmodern context, it must adapt to change and evolve. Using as an illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty, through doubt, to faith, Evans adds a unique perspective to the ongoing dialogue about postmodernism and the church that has so captivated the Christian community in recent years. In a changing cultural environment where new ideas threaten the safety and security of the faith, Evolving in Monkey Town is a fearlessly honest story of survival.
1. There is no such thing as a "postmodern context" unless one adopts, of one's own free will, such a perspective.
2. While I cannot speak for "Christianity" generally, there is no "ongoing dialogue about postmodernism and the church" within the LDS Church, and I predict their never shall be. Postmodernism is, without question, one of the most destructive and entropic intellectual fads ever to rise out of the contemporary humanities within Western academia; it is a part of the Great and Spacious Building (indeed, at this juncture, probably an integral part of its foundations), and Zion is going in the opposite direction, as with other aspects of Babylon, with all dispatch.
Postmodernism, as to its broad contours, is, at its core, irreconcilability opposed to central gospel truth claims. And indeed, for postmodern theory, there can be no such thing as "LDS truth claims" outside of, or beyond the socially constructed "truth" that any such church could be understood to posses as a manifestation of that church's embeddedness within the social/cultural/ideological environment from which all claims to "truth" are derived and developed.
Just to say "the Church is true," within a postmodern context is problematic because as truth can never be more than a derivative and ideologically conditioned epiphenomena of culture (and deeply interwoven with issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and the perspectives of the dominant class for whom any such "truth" may justify continuing dominance) The restored gospel's "discourse" can never itself stand existentially outside its own sociocultural base.
No real wiggle room here, I'm afraid.