In the 1990s, Friends taught us that pornography is a consequence-free pastime that pairs well with a laugh track. A generation later, porn is no joke, but rather a modern-day…
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The Pastoral Virtue of Playfulness – Randall Greenwald
Walking into our pastor’s study for our premarital-counseling appointment, my fiancée and I found Pastor Mike spending his free moments reading. It wasn’t a Puritan classic, nor the latest release…
What I Had Wrong About Spiritual Growth – Susan Alexander Yates
One summer evening when I was 19, a conversation changed my life. I had just finished my sophomore year of college. Three of my best friends and I were on…
Let’s Go Down: Joy and Humility in Psallos’s Philippians Album – Victoria Emily Jones
Listening to the albums of Jackson, Tennessee–based music collective Psallos has become a favorite road-tripping activity for my husband and me. As adaptations of whole New Testament epistles, each album…
God’s People Are a Waiting People – John Onwuchekwa
John Onwuchekwa led a session at the 2021 TGC National Conference titled “The Christian’s Patience” from Hebrews 11. Defining hope as “the feeling that the feeling you have right now…
Why You Should Read J. I. Packer – Kevin J. Vanhoozer
I first met J. I. Packer in Cambridge in the mid-1980s when I was a doctoral student at Cambridge University. He was already J. I. Packer, the elder statesman of…
The Final T4G – Collin Hansen
More than 15 years ago I crowded into the Galt House Hotel ballroom, just across I-64 from the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, with 3,000 pastors and students. We gathered…
Faith & Work: How Do I Affirm Goodness in the Workplace? – Missy Wallace
In this episode of TGC Q&A, we begin a six-week series titled “Faith & Work” with Missy Wallace, who answers questions about why work matters. She discusses: The gospel changes…
Sister, God Sees You – Wendy Alsup
A single mom sat in the scorching sun, watching her child waste away. She had no food, no water, and no person to help her. She was utterly on her…
Why Gen Z Christians Need Church History – Noah Senthil
Nobody is exempt from the influence of the environment in which we live, grow, and learn, either for good or for ill. Generation Z (1997–2012) is my generation, and our…