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Welcome Back, Church Planting

For a while, it looked like the church-planting party was over. Back in the 2000s and 2010s, everyone was there. In 2001, Tim Keller founded City to City. In 2005, Mark Driscoll took over Acts 29....

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Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bavinck as Cultural Apologist

In How To Reach the West Again, Tim Keller called for Christians to cultivate a “Christian High Theory”: a method of contextualization whereby Christians don’t merely explain the gospel itself but ...

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My teenager is exploring her spirituality. I support her leap of faith, even as a non-religious parent | Jackie Bailey

My daughter is dipping her toes into sacred waters, seeing what it feels like to surrender and finding a sense of meaning to life that is bigger than herselfMaking sense of it is a column about spi...

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Happy Wife, Happy Life?

The year was 1996. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I stepped into my first day as a federal agent, clad in a crisp cream pantsuit and a sensible ponytail and wearing a silver cross around my neck. My...

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When Iran’s Leaders Praised the Bible

Last year at the Vatican Library, I had the chance to see a portion of the Bible with an incredible history. It wasn’t the famous Codex Vaticanus but a translation of the Gospels into Persian from ...

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Stop Telling Teens to ‘Make Their Faith Their Own’

“My son grew up in church, but now he needs to make his faith his own.” “Look, I know your parents are Christians, but you can’t rely on their faith; you have to make their faith your own.” Have ...

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Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement Biblical?

When it comes to understanding our redemption, many evangelicals emphasize the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement (PSA). Most see repeated evidence in Scripture that Jesus takes the penalt...

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Skepticism Is Not a Christian Virtue

I’ve never thought of skepticism as a virtue, but we live in a world that seems to demand it. In the fourth grade, I rode home on the bus and traded a piece of amethyst for two small red gems. “The...

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Parenting with Hope in an Anxious Age

As our children grow and mature, our anxieties as parents often grow right alongside them. How do we navigate concerns about activities, dating, cell phones, social media, and faith questions? In ...

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Bright and beautiful? The man causing millennial rapture with his school hymn singalongs

Primary School Bangers caused a sensation on TikTok, then at Glastonbury, and now it’s gone nationwide. Is it harmless nostalgia – or a symptom of an increasingly conservative culture? He’s got the...

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Self-Creation Is Exhausting. Here’s Where to Find Rest.

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 19th century, he observed that despite our prosperity, there was a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance.” Fast forward to the 1990s. In t...

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American by Context, Christian by Conviction

There’s a true gospel, and there are false gospels. There are believers in historic Christianity, and there are unbelievers. People genuinely remade by the gospel don’t seek to remake the gospel. ...

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AI Can’t Beat What We Learn in the School of Our Senses

https://media.thegospelcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/02122654/AUDIO-AI-Cant-Beat-What-We-Learn-in-the-School-of-Our-Senses.mp3 Listen to the author read his article. In March 2020,...

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How Do I Know If I’m Idolizing Work?

I work in finance. Besides having the gifts, opportunity, and desire to do this work, I also feel this is an area God has called me to work in. I really want to be excellent in it. But sometimes—OK...

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Supreme Court Says Schools Can’t Hide Gender Transitions from Parents

The Story: In a 6–3 decision on the emergency docket, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked California from enforcing policies that require public schools to hide a child’s gender transiti...

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The Lawful Shape of Christlikeness

In Christian spiritual formation, image-bearers are conformed to Christ, the true image of God (Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3; see John 1:18; 14:9). Scripture consistently frames the Christian life as follow...

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Our Investments Reveal Our Eschatology

I love a lot about my Christian university. It’s small, local, and relational. It’s the kind of place that takes formation seriously. Faith isn’t treated as an accessory; it’s expected to shape the...

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Edgelords Won’t Inherit the Earth

Somewhere right now, a young man is watching a 30-second clip of a Christian influencer calling a fellow pastor a coward on a live stream. The clip has 40,000 views. What he didn’t see is that his ...

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Is It Time for Complementarians to Change Their Minds?

The topic of women in church leadership is well worn by now. Ecclesiastes reminds us there’s nothing new under the sun (1:9), and that seems to apply to debates about women in the church. Yet somet...

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Missiles and Moments of Clarity

It’s 5 a.m. in Dubai. I’m awakened by a loud bang and my bedroom windows shaking. My wife also wakes with a start and sits up. My half-sleeping brain tries to process: What was that? The adrenaline...

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5 Ways to Care for Divorced People in Your Church

I used to love July and August because it meant a break from school for my daughters, more family time, and a slower routine. But 20 years ago, my husband left at the beginning of the summer. That ...

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