I am a school teacher, and an instrumental music teacher at that. These days of going back to school with no students, and trying to teach music over a computer,…
Category: The Gospel Coalition
As In Heaven: Setting the Stage – Crawford Loritts
In this episode of As In Heaven, Crawford Loritts shares how love is a preamble for why we ought to care about the race and justice conversation. Love means we…
Your Neighbor’s New Creed: ‘In This House, We Believe . . .’ – Brett McCracken
I first started noticing it in 2017 at the beginning of the secular “religious” revival spawned by anti-Trump resistance. I saw it often in windows of coffee shops and vintage…
Make Christ Your Chief Delight – Jordan Stone
Epitaphs communicate. They tell future generations what’s important about someone. Epitaphs also shape. They form our memory by centering an individual’s cherished truths. What will they say about you when…
When ‘You Are Enough’ Simply Isn’t Enough – Nancy Guthrie
These days there is a mantra we’re meant to take up. As we look in the mirror, or scroll through Instagram, or compare the store-bought snacks we brought for the…
Gospel Growth in America’s Most Secular Place – Paul Buckley
“It looks like Berlin after World War II.” It was 2001, and we were taking our prospective church-planting team through some of the cities of the Merrimack Valley of New…
Methodism Yesterday, Today, and Forever? – Mark Tooley
Jeffrey Barbeau’s The Spirit of Methodism is a helpful primer for non-Methodists seeking to understand a global religious movement now numbering about 70 million or more. The story is especially…
How the Rod Can Point Children to God – Tilly Dillehay
Every parent I know has spent more time with their kids this year than they expected. In addition to the many other pressures in 2020, parents of young children have…
Rules, the Rod, and the 3 Uses of the Law – Jared Kennedy
Adam and Abigail found their first apartment in an older building near downtown, a tight space the couple made comfortable by purchasing some furniture and putting down a big carpet…
Justin Giboney’s Both/AND Politics – Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
The Democratic National Convention should’ve been some of the best days of Justin Giboney’s life. His first steps into politics had been wildly successful: almost on a whim, he joined…