Jenna DiPrima

Jun 17, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Andrew Laparra |Obbie Todd |Jenna DiPrima |Gavin Ortlund

I woke up on a recent Saturday morning with an intense, though familiar, pain. My body was in the beginning stages of an abdominal seizure—the worst I’ve ever experienced. On the way to the hospital later in the day, barely conscious and in extreme pain, I recall telling my wife that I felt as if I might die. Thankfully, after receiving several powerful medications, my body started to return to its normal state.

Jun 17, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Thom S. Rainer |Obbie Todd |Jenna DiPrima |Gavin Ortlund

If something needs to be fixed at our house, my wife calls a repairman. Let me be clearer: if anything needs to be fixed, she calls a repairman. I’m totally inept at any kind of repair work. It’s not just that I can’t fix things; I tend to make the problem worse. On several occasions, I’ve declared something was irreversibly broken, only to discover it wasn’t plugged in. I can see my wife rolling her eyes even as I type these words.

Jun 16, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Rosann Coulon |Obbie Todd |Gavin Ortlund |Jenna DiPrima

I’m the daughter of a pastor who fell into prescription drug abuse. My early years are full of happy memories of a father who was present, engaged, and loving. But when I was 15 years old, my father began experiencing chronic headaches and pain. He started taking medication that was meant to help him recover, but for the next 20 years, these drugs were a source of great harm as my father fell into addiction and substance abuse.

Jun 16, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Keith Evans |Obbie Todd |Gavin Ortlund |Jenna DiPrima

I’m a psalm-singing Presbyterian. There are comparatively few of us, so I understand if you haven’t encountered one before. My church only sings the 150 inspired psalms in worship. Like all Presbyterians, we’re also committed to connectionalism, confessionalism, and elder-led church government; and we practice infant baptism. If you’ve met a psalm-singing Presbyterian, it’s possible you’ve met the angry type who’s militantly committed to our convictional distinctives.

Jun 13, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Jenna DiPrima |Courtney Reissig |Jen Wilkin |Alex Harris

“You have cancer.”I never expected to hear those words at 35 with three young children. Advertise on TGCMany things have gone through my mind since my diagnosis with stage 3 HER2+ breast cancer, but a prevailing thought has been my gratitude for Reformed theology—sometimes called Calvinism or “big God” theology. It has been a refuge for me in one of the hardest seasons of my life.