Josh Vincent

Jan 11, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Heidi Dean |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Brett McCracken |Josh Vincent

If there’s a theologian known for upsetting categories—and unsettling listeners—it’s Stanley Hauerwas. He has been a top voice in virtue ethics, a critic of Reformed theology (to which I hold), and the only theologian I’ve known to cuss in class. He can lob a fiery critique at Christian nationalism, only to tell off the theological left for where they’re not even Christian.

Jan 10, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Josh Vincent |Trevin Wax |Melissa Kruger

Until the 1970s, the Canadian province of Quebec was almost more Catholic than the Pope. “This is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn’t throw a brick without breaking a church window,” author Mark Twain said in 1881. He was in Montreal, where, up until the 1950s, 90 percent of the population attended mass every week—perhaps the highest church attendance in the world, according to historian Mark Noll.

Jan 5, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Josh Vincent |Melissa Kruger |Brett McCracken |Trevin Wax

Whether because of health concerns or simply out of preference for watching online in their pajamas, 30- to 49-year-old churchgoers now attend church far less often than before COVID. For some, gathering in person can feel risky or inconvenient. Advertise on TGCWhen the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost in Acts 2, the church sprang up and gathered regularly. By Acts 20:7, Christians were gathering each Sunday. Moreover, Hebrews 10:25 warns Christians not to neglect meeting together.