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New Findings Challenge ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children

In the United States, around 3.3 percent of adolescents identify as transgender, and a futher 2.2 percent question whether they might be. Rather than exploring why young people are 329 percent more...

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Interested in Spiritual Formation? Look to the Reformed Tradition.

As I made my way to bed, shedding the day’s clothes for fresh pajamas, I continued the conversation with God that had started when I was prostrate on the living room floor, nose squeezed into the g...

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The Most Prominent Christian Athlete in American History

At The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, we talk a lot about front porches. It’s the (metaphorical, but sometimes literal) place where you can sit down with someone and talk as friends, even ...

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Faith Fatigue Is Real: What to Do When You’re Spiritually Burnt Out

We all talk about burnout in our careers, relationships, or parenting roles. But what happens when the burnout reaches your soul? When you feel distant from Allah despite praying, fasting, making d...

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Donkeys and Diviners Are Under God’s Hand

The story of Balaam (Num. 22–24) is a curious aside in the Pentateuch— and not just because it includes a talking donkey. Exodus through Deuteronomy tells the story of the Israelites, who follow M...

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The FAQs: What You Should Know About the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will gather in Dallas, Texas, with ancillary events beginning Sunday, June 8, 2025, and the two business sessions that constitute the official Annual Meeting s...

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I worked in the Vatican for 18 years – this will be the most unpredictable conclave yet | Ariel Beramendi

Will the cardinals follow Francis’s path or return to a more conservative doctrine? The white smoke will tell us which faction has won Ariel Beramendi worked at the Vatican for 18 years as an offic...

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Protect Joy in a Doom-and-Gloom News Cycle

After 30 minutes of doomscrolling, watching cable news, or catching up on the latest headlines, how many of us walk away with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentlenes...

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‘The Hermanos’: 4 Friends Experiencing the Gospel’s Cross-Cultural Power

The four of us met more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Chip and Bryan cofounded Unite, a network of diverse Atlanta churches committed to developing authentic and collaborative relationships among chu...

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Editor’s Pick: New Picture Books (Spring 2025)

It’s springtime again in the Southeastern United States, so I’ve been watering my hyacinths, spraying pollen off the porch, and listening to Skye Peterson’s song “Resurrection in You”: You can hea...

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‘Now’s the Time’: Gen Z and the Church’s Renewal

It used to be popular to wax eloquent about “kids these days” and our devolving society. But that’s no longer the case. More and more Christian leaders are bullish on Gen Z, as our generation shows...

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Union with Christ Fills Our Deepest Longings

When I announced I was writing a book on union with Christ, a friend messaged me and said, “I am too!” Two years later, not only have we both released books on the subject (Home with God: Our Union...

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Porn Shaped Gen Z Men. The Bible Can Too.

For the modern man, porn isn’t a guilty indulgence—it’s a daily ritual. In a 2020 Psychology Today article, Michael Castleman estimates that, on average, single men watch porn for 25 minutes per da...

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Francis Grimké: A Model for Christian Social Engagement

Francis Grimké’s life is the stuff movies are made of. Remembered as a “Black Puritan,” Grimké journeyed from slavery in South Carolina to seminary at Princeton. His story offers an almost unparall...

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Sacrificial Yeses and Necessary Nos: Discern the Difference

Courtney Doctor and Melissa Kruger discuss how to make decisions about using your time. They talk about how to think of yourself with sober judgment, the wrong reasons to say “yes” and “no,” and ho...

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Creation Care in an Age of Despair

My professor turned from the chalkboard strewn with soil particle diagrams. “Where does the vast majority of the mass of a tree come from?” The room of 51 college students stared blankly back at hi...

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How Ecclesiastes Finds Its Amen in Jesus

As a young pastor, I valued Ecclesiastes as Holy Scripture but didn’t feel prepared to serve it up to the church family. Ecclesiastes’s author spoke from life experiences still in my future. Beside...

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Pictures of Jesus: The Shepherd of God (John 10:1–21)

In this lecture, Don Carson discusses John 10:1–21, emphasizing Jesus as the Good Shepherd who knows, nurtures, and lays down his life for his sheep. He contrasts Jesus with thieves, showing that, ...

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I’ve Attended Every TGC Conference. Here’s What I Saw This Year.

Back in 2007, at The Gospel Coalition’s first national conference, I was 27 years old and just about to begin seminary. I was mesmerized by Tim Keller’s tour through the Old Testament to show how t...

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Themelios 50.1

The new spring 2025 issue of Themelios has 227 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It’s freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software (comin...

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Would Jesus Be on TikTok?

Not long ago, I spoke at Liberty University to a large group of undergraduates. The topic was cultural apologetics, and I explained our strategy at The Gospel Coalition. I said we’re happy to meet ...

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