Collin Hansen

Birmingham

Vice President for Content and Editor in Chief at The Gospel Coalition

VP for Content for TGC, Host of Gospelbound, Executive Director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, Author of 'Timothy Keller': https://t.co/oYHwM0NwOG

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Articles

The Extraordinary, Ordinary Church on Capitol Hill

1 week ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Caleb MorellWhen you think about Washington, DC, you think about Congress, you think about the president, you think about the Supreme Court, maybe you think about universities. You probably don’t think of local churches. And yet, here’s this ragtag of ordinary people gathering, evangelizing, preaching the Word and God bears extraordinary fruit.
Midwife to a Movement: The Legacy of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

2 weeks ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

When I was a student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), the admissions department hosted a brainstorming session. They asked for our input on recruiting. When you don’t boast a big endowment, you live and die with enrollment. At least eight of my friends from our time as undergraduates in the Chicago area went on to graduate from a seminary. Four chose the nearby school, TEDS, featuring a world-class faculty of professors like Don Carson, Kevin Vanhoozer, and John Woodbridge.
When It Feels Like Your Faith Is Failing

2 weeks ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. When you understand doctrine is the script of the story of reality.
Why Our Children Don’t Want to Be Parents

3 weeks ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. It’s precisely that idea of the self centeredness that is really baked into our character. All of us want what we want, and it’s really difficult to learn to serve others and put our own needs second.
How Can a World Full of Evil and Suffering Be a Part of God’s Plan?

3 weeks ago | crossway.org | Collin Hansen

The Problem of EvilOf all the harrowing images from the Second World War, of mushroom clouds and floating corpses, one of them stands out to me. The picture was taken in 1942, outside Ivanhorod in Ukraine. A mother is running from left to right, holding and perhaps shielding her child. The scene itself was not rare. It played out tens of millions of times, across dozens of nations, to families long forgotten to history.
How Art Sits with Us in Our Sorrows

1 month ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. We’re seldom helped by reading a sentence in a book that explains it all, because we sit with the sorrow and the grief and the way art works in us is it also sits with us in the sorrow and in the grief. It brings beauty into these places of pain and unfolds over time like a flower. And I think that that’s that’s part of how art works.
Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?

1 month ago | crossway.org | Collin Hansen |Samuel Ferguson |Kathryn Butler |Jeremy Linneman

Addressing Doubts about God’s Justice and Goodness in the Face of EvilWhen considering the horrific events of the Holocaust, you can’t help but ask yourself the question, “How could God allow such evil?” In this video, Collin Hansen offers encouragement for those who struggle to trust God’s justice and goodness in the face of evil and suffering. TGC Hard Questions is a series of short booklets that seek to answer common but difficult questions people ask about Christianity.
The Great Novel That Almost Wasn’t

1 month ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. I wanted to prove to myself that I could finish a piece of long fiction, whether it was for public consumption or not, that that goal has been reached, and by that metric, it has been a success. And in my mind’s eye, I imagine whether anyone ever reads this book or not.
Wrestling with God’s Silence in the Face of Inexplicable Suffering

1 month ago | theaquilareport.com | Collin Hansen

Over the clanging gong of breaking news, we listen for the first notes from a trumpet that will signal the end of evil (Matt. 24:31). Then, final judgment will be rendered to the butchers of Buchenwald and Berdychiv. No evil word will go unpunished. On that day, every child’s cries will find consolation. God is not asking for silence. When we suffer and do not understand, he is not demanding the stiff upper lip.
5 Years After COVID-19: A Reflection

1 month ago | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen

Five years ago today, we began to realize our world would never be the same. I remember sitting in my living room and talking with small-group leaders from my church about how they needed to stock up on essential supplies. They thought I was crazy. But that evening, professional sports began to shut down. Two days later, on Friday, students like my son would leave school and never go back.