Steve McAlpine

Feb 6, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Steve McAlpine |Brett McCracken |Jerry Riendeau |Jen Oshman

You’re standing outside church one Sunday morning, the early-spring sun warming your back as you chat with a newcomer about what he liked about the singing. Suddenly, the screeching of tires and an electrical crackling sound swivels your head. In the shrubbery—dangerously close to the glass sliders of the new foyer—a gray sports car, smoking and steaming, has come to a halt.

Oct 8, 2023 | theaquilareport.com | Steve McAlpine

First, Christians can call secular leaders to account with grace and humility. Even the tone and shape of our political disagreements must adorn the gospel. Second, Christians who are in political power must maintain the tension of holding moral certainty with political reality. It cannot be the case that the winner takes it all. The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 will be seen as the last great public acknowledgment in the West of a transcendence that limits temporal power.

Sep 26, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Steve McAlpine |Michael Kruger |Glen Scrivener |Brett McCracken

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 will be seen as the last great public acknowledgment in the West of a transcendence that limits temporal power. In our secular age, religion is reduced to a privatized experience. The public square declares, “No heaven above us and no hell below.” The Queen’s funeral, replete with the language of temporal power being given by God, threw down a challenge to the rulers of this age: there is a God in heaven. Such a challenge isn’t new. And neither is the idea.

Apr 12, 2023 | eternitynews.com.au | Steve McAlpine

They were rude and sweary on national television, they sang (?) songs about anarchy, and rendered an ironic version of God Save the Queen that was clearly a poke at the historic institution of the monarchy. To be honest it all seems a little tame now considering what can be said, sung and exhibited by singers on mainstream and social media.