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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Patrick Miller
If you traveled back to the early 1960s, you’d be hard-pressed to find Christians hopeful about the country’s trajectory. The sexual revolution, hippie movement, and summer of love suggested the country was driving hard and fast toward libertine atheism. In 1966, TIME published their infamous “Is God Dead?” cover story. But five years later, the vibe changed.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Patrick Miller
The past year was characterized by apocalyptic predictions and institutional demolition. Our presidential candidates issued doomsday warnings about the end of democracy, the middle class, and the economy. Closer to home, some of last year’s most discussed Christian books were also chock-full of fear, calling for Christians to either abandon churches or deconstruct.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
endeavorwithus.com | Patrick Miller
It’s 2001, and my middle school lacks a cell phone policy for one simple reason: hardly anyone under the age of 25 owns such a device. Back then, pagers were far more common. Smartphones, as we think of them, didn’t even exist. The BlackBerry would be released the next year, alongside Verizon’s launch of the first 3G network—a technology that allowed cellphones to access the internet at painfully slow rates.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Patrick Miller
After the first day of middle school, John’s son, Jordan, arrived home with a new toy: a school-issued iPad. Of course, it wasn’t given as a toy. It was given as an educational tool, but to your average 12-year-old who’s never owned a smartphone or an Apple product—well, it’s cool. Curious about what Jordan could access on the device, John took the iPad to his room.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ivan Mesa |Patrick Miller |Brett McCracken |Joe Carter
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. What’s on your nightstand right now? A lamp and definitely not my iPhone. If it were, I doubt I’d muster the requisite attention to pick up David Foster Wallace’s magisterially monstrous Infinite Jest. Yes, I admit this is a flex. Literally. The book is uncomfortably heavy. And likewise so is its story. But . . .
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Patrick Miller
Patrick Miller Patrick Miller (MDiv, Covenant Theological Seminary) is a pastor at The Crossing. He offers cultural commentary and interviews with leading Christian thinkers on the podcast Truth Over Tribe, and is the coauthor of the forthcoming book Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant.
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May 31, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Patrick Miller
Of course, calling all of this “information” is misleading. Perhaps we should call it content, because it’s not all equal and it’s not all equally true. But that’s part of the problem. What happens when you take a populous whose idea of an informed person is someone capable of juggling massive amounts of incoherent and contextless information (by “juggling” I mean, sharing it online with an emotive, self-justifying passion) and submerge them in a limitless morass of content?
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Patrick Miller
We do live in a negative world and we are not alone. The primary cause of this significant negative is not primarily our faith—after all, we stand aside those who deny Christ—but the ideological takeover of higher education, and coastal and urban businesses, publications, and institutions by the latest and most fashionable ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Patrick Miller
In the introduction to Aaron Renn’s new book, Life in the Negative World, he cites my church, The Crossing, as the quintessential illustration of his three worlds framework. He tells a painful, decade-long story I participated in firsthand. In a way, our story does support his thesis. Login to read more Sign in or create a free account to access Subscriber-only content. Sign in Register
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
vianolavie.org | Patrick Miller
Most people in the United States eventually try to “settle down,” as the media continues to extoll the virtues of a sedentary life with a nuclear family in the suburbs. To some, however, this seems like a particularly limiting social constraint. Why miss out on Boston because you have to live in Colorado? Why avoid Grand Teton when your base of operations is Del Boca Vista, Florida?
