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Aug 14, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Crawford Gribben
“Grief, I know, can drive us mad,” writes Rosie Schaap in her memoir of loss, love and Ireland. In 2010, at 39, she was bereaved of her husband, a young professor of literature who had still too many books to read. The next year, her mother, a complicated woman with a powerful energy for life, died also.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Chris Castaldo |Crawford Gribben |Tim Keller |Brett McCracken
Gathered around a bonfire on a crisp New England evening, my wife and I listened as our friends discussed possibly sending their children to a new school. They’d long been troubled by the moral decline they’d observed in their public school system. However, living on the East Coast, their options were limited: public school or Catholic school.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Crawford Gribben |Tim Keller |Brett McCracken
Chicago was never at the top of Campus Outreach’s list of places to start a campus ministry. It wasn’t even on the list. While about 70 percent of adults in the Chicago metro area are Christians, only 16 percent are evangelical. At the University of Chicago, just 25 percent of students in recent years said they were Christian. Church planters report hard work in hard soil.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Cameron Cole |Brett McCracken |Crawford Gribben |Justin Taylor
I used to think about heaven from time to time, but it didn’t regularly affect my everyday life. That all changed when my oldest son, Cam, suddenly and unexpectedly died in Christ in November 2013. After my child went to live with the Lord, heaven became a profound influence on my day-to-day perspective. It changed my life. Heaven was previously something I intellectually knew about.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Tim Keller |Brett McCracken |Crawford Gribben |Robert W. Yarbrough
I was converted at age 20 through the ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The book table of my InterVarsity group provided a good dose of British evangelical pietism. But also available were volumes from Francis Schaeffer as well as from an art professor at the Free University of Amsterdam.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Cameron Cole |Brett McCracken |Robert W. Yarbrough |Crawford Gribben
More Episodes Church, Equip Parents to Disciple Kids It Takes a Church to Disciple Kids When There’s a Bully in the Pulpit Hope and Help for Women’s MinistryFamily discipleship is essential for lifelong faith. In this breakout session from TGC23, Cameron Cole teaches from Ephesians 3:11–16, challenging parents to embrace their central role in their children’s spiritual formation.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brett McCracken |Robert W. Yarbrough |Crawford Gribben |Mark Collins
Two of my favorite films this summer don’t seem to share much in common, at least on the surface. Thelma (released in June, now available to rent) is about a 93-year-old grandmother (June Squibb) who falls prey to a scam and loses $10,000. Sing Sing (out today in select theaters) is about a group of inmates at New York’s Sing Sing prison who perform theatrical stage plays as part of a program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA).
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Crawford Gribben |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Kirsten Franze |Ryan Welsh
Few theologians are as loved or loathed as John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), and few theologians’ reputations depend so little on what they actually believed. Historians, public commentators, social media users, and even country musicians like John Rich agree that, for good or ill, Darby should be regarded as the father of dispensational premillennialism, the most important vector through which Zionism has influenced the religious cultures and foreign policy of the United States.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brett McCracken |Robert W. Yarbrough |Crawford Gribben |Mark Collins
Why, when we look at contemporary pop culture—movies, music, TV, campus protests, meme culture, and TikTok (especially TikTok)—does the word “incoherence” often come to mind? Why does so much today feel random, disconnected, contradictory, aimless, and altogether void of coherent logic and purpose? Part of it is that social media’s inherent denarratived randomness has powerfully shaped a schizophrenic cultural consciousness.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
newbooksnetwork.com | Crawford Gribben
Exploring both his life and legacy, the first full biography of William Sharman Crawford, the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster politics between the early 1830s and the 1850s.
