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What to Expect When Your Church Finally Gets a Building

Like many church plants, we started mobile. We found a local school that would have us. We purchased folding chairs and racks, totes and carts, a modular baptistry, and, of course, a trailer. Off ...

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AI and Everyday: What Are Some Practical Frameworks for Christians?

How should churches use AI without letting it reshape what the church is? That question drives this episode with Michael Graham and Keith Plummer. Michael is program director for The Keller Cent...

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Winner Announcement: TGC’s 2026 Essay Contest for Young Adults

It’s hard to navigate a fallen world. For Gen Z, this reality is compounded by the additional difficulties of growing up online. Thankfully, the Bible’s answers apply to each new generation. Over ...

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I Blocked My Search Engine So I Could Wait on God

For the past two years, I’ve blocked my iPhone’s access to Safari for the entire month of February. What started as a Digital Rest initiative on my university’s campus, an attempt to encourage stu...

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Embrace Your Humanity by Digging in the Dirt

This year, I’m gardening. When I close my laptop, leave my phone behind, and pour water into terra-cotta pots, I slow down enough to remember who God made me to be, despite living in a digital era....

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Sister, Bring Your Sexual Sin to Light

I sobbed alone in my dorm room, devastated from yet another night of watching pornography. My growing curiosity about the worldliness around me during my first few months of college—combined with ...

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How to Defend Evangelicalism Faithfully

There’s an ever-increasing catalog of books critiquing evangelical Christians, many written by people who once called themselves evangelical. The popular narrative, propagated by cultural elites an...

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Understanding Revelation: Who Are the 144,000?

The identity of the 144,000 is hotly debated within the church. Even outside evangelicalism, this group’s identity takes on great significance. Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, argue that the 144,...

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Glorify God When You Quit Your Job

I remember the first time I resigned from a job. For weeks, probably months, I carried a sense of low-grade dread and unease as I anticipated the hard conversation with my boss. Like pulling a toot...

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Little Patch of Ground, Little Patch of Time: Lessons from Wendell Berry

Much will be written about Wendell Berry (1934–2026) in these days and weeks following his death. (Hopefully none of it will be AI-written . . . Berry would hate that.) His writing has shaped my s...

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10 Resolutions for AI Use

Christians today need a principled ethical framework for evaluating AI use. The following resolutions are derived from a moral reflection on the Ten Commandments. These are just a starting point, ...

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God-Given Tools for Fighting Anxiety (with Blair Linne)

Courtney and Melissa talk to Blair Linne about her struggle with anxiety and panic attacks and the tools that have helped her to fight anxiety. They discuss the mind/body/spirit complexities of a...

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Beware: Wendell Berry Will Change You.

For a man who called himself a “bad-weather churchgoer,” Wendell Berry (1934–2026) has had a remarkable influence among American Christians. He was recently featured on the cover of Christianity To...

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When Christian Nationalism Becomes a Catchall

Some might say the greatest threat to American democracy today is increasing polarization. Others might point to the rising national debt or Islamic terrorism. Still, there are bipartisan concerns ...

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Christianity: Good, True, and Beautiful?

In modern Western culture, Christianity is often seen as anything but good, true, and beautiful. The Bible’s teaching when it comes to sexuality and gender can lead people to think Christianity is ...

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Update on Our Content and Editorial Standards

For more than two decades, The Gospel Coalition has resourced the church by publishing original articles and, in our earliest days, hosting a number of independent bloggers. We’re grateful for the ...

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Happy 25th Birthday, ESV: Reflections from John Piper

Twenty-five years ago this fall, Crossway released the ESV Bible. John Piper was thrilled. “I grew up reading the King James Version,” he said. “As a sophomore at Wheaton in 1965, I bought an RSV...

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‘No Tyndale, No Shakespeare’: How the Bible Made Modern English

The book that the famed British Library once called the most significant in the English language was nearly destroyed before it was even printed. That book was William Tyndale’s 1526 English New Te...

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Hire Wisely from a Stack of AI Résumés

This summer, LinkedIn added a response button to join previous options like “Save,” “Copy link to post,” and “Report post.” The new choice: “Seems like AI slop.” During the first two weeks, more th...

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Young Adult Sorrows Need an Ancient Remedy

The auditorium was cold. Goose bumps rose on my bare arms, and I reached out to clasp the hands of the women across from me. They were older than me, their faces tanned and wrinkled and kind and un...

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Why Adult Children Are Cutting Off Their Parents

Gone are the days when family estrangement was a desperate, last resort of children who suffered through years of abuse and neglect under volatile, violent caregivers. In increasing numbers, adult ...

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