“I promise to love you when it’s easy and when it’s an effort,” I said, beaming at my soon-to-be husband. As I repeated part of our wedding vows, a chuckle…
Category: The Gospel Coalition
John Piper on the Nature of Saving Faith – John Piper
The thesis of my book What Is Saving Faith? is that “saving faith has in it the affectional dimension of treasuring Christ. Where Christ is not received as treasure, he…
Calvin University Votes to Allow Faculty to Embrace Heretical Views on Sexuality – Joe Carter
The Story: The trustees of Calvin University voted to keep faculty who reject the Bible’s clear teachings on what constitutes sexual immorality. Will the denomination step in, or will they…
Don’t Let Spiritual Abuse Fester – Wendy Alsup
Ideally, I would write a review of Michael Kruger’s Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church as an objective observer. But five minutes into reading it, I…
The Abolitionist Hero You’ve Never Heard Of – Steve Bateman
In 1798, Granville Sharp published a real page-turner titled Remarks on the Use of the Definitive Article in the Greek New Testament. One of those remarks came to be known…
Don’t Be a Slave to Academic Achievement – Andrea Widjaja
Growing up, I was always a sickly child. My parents pulled me out of school and homeschooled me from third grade all the way through high school. During my high…
Make Theological Interpretation Great Again – Brandon D. Smith
Early in grad school, a professor introduced me to John J. O’Keefe and R. R. Reno’s Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible, which opened my…
Are Complementarian Preachers Just Mansplaining? – Bernard N. Howard
It’s become known on social media as the Mansplaining Statue. At the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, a man stands with one foot on a bench, addressing…
Thomas Jefferson: Hero or Villain? – Collin Hansen, Thomas Kidd
He is the greatest enigma among the Founding Fathers, the greatest source of controversy—and one of the greatest writers in world political history. He had nearly boundless confidence in rational…
A Prayer Against Abortion Rights Initiatives – Jason Helopoulos
This morning, we’re going to pray about Ballot Proposal 3 in Michigan, the proposed amendment to our state’s constitution. Your elders have wrestled with how to address this and feel…