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August 2026

August 02, 2026

Should You Turn Your Testimony Into Content?

Christians love a good testimony. Sometimes, if we're honest, we prefer a good graphic testimony....

February 2025

February 05, 2025

Paul Kingsnorth’s Erasmus Lecture, Revisited

The novelist and public intellectual Paul Kingsnorth has emerged from his media fast to post...

August 2024

August 12, 2024

The Conservative Case for Sauron

This is a guest post by my friend Josh Trevino. I wish I had written...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

The Sort-Of Christian Revival

I enjoyed this new three-way conversation from Unherd with Justin Brierley, Liz Oldfield, and Alex O'Connor, moderated...

May 15, 2024

How John MacArthur Gets Mental Illness Wrong

A couple months ago, I tweeted out an awful story about a young man who...

April 2024

April 20, 2024

When Mandisa Forgave Simon Cowell

Fans and friends are mourning the sudden death of Mandisa Hundley, an American Idol alum...

April 05, 2024

J. K. Rowling is More Christian Than Baylor University

"Today in my Harry Potter class @Baylor, we had a hard and necessary conversation about...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

How Should Christians Think About Homosexuality and Marriage?

I try as a rule to avoid protracted debates on Twitter (sorry, I just refuse...

March 2023

March 21, 2023

A Few Clarifying Words

On his Substack, former Spiritual Friendship contributor Chris Damian has added his own commentary on...

March 18, 2023

A Little Romance

Eve Tushnet has written a response to my new First Things piece on all things "gay...

March 17, 2023

Side B Christianity: A Post-Mortem

At First Things this week, I published what I'd like to think is a fairly...

February 2023

February 10, 2023

He Gets Us, But Who Will Get Him?

This is a nice short Substack by Aaron Renn on the He Gets Us campaign....

December 2022

December 14, 2022

How to Gain a TGC Audience and Lose Your Soul

I have once again found myself in the embarrassing position of wasting time on an...

December 03, 2022

The Thomas Achord Affair (and What it Taught Us)

I had a lovely Thanksgiving at home with my family. Sadly, while I was doing...

October 2022

October 04, 2022

Decentering Ethics Decenters Jesus

A couple weeks ago, Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research jointly released their 2022 survey of...

September 2022

September 19, 2022

Elizabeth, Daughter of Eve

A heart-warming story has been going around about the late Queen Elizabeth. The story goes...

August 2022

August 28, 2022

The Tragic Vision of Christian Singleness

Is it the done thing now to congratulate online friends when their tweet goes viral?...

August 07, 2022

The Gospel Coalition’s Titanic Problem

By now, it's become something of a cliché in certain Twitter spaces to dunk on...

July 2022

July 24, 2022

When “Winsomeness” Fails

What are we talking about when we talk about "winsomeness?" There's been a lot of...

July 09, 2022

Guest Post: Pastors, The Church Didn’t Need Your Nuanced Dobbs Take

Today I'm doing something different and featuring a guest piece by my friend Grayson Quay....

June 2022

June 25, 2022

Chris Rice and the Conversation We Can’t Not Have

I'm writing this piece on June 24, heading into a weekend when it is all...

June 06, 2022

In a Negative World… (Part II)

Today I continue my notes on Trevin Wax's Gospel Coalition series about the "three-world model"...

June 05, 2022

In a Negative World… (Part I)

I will be in Chicago this week. If you are in the area, feel free...

May 2022

May 04, 2022

4 Predictions if Roe Falls

Let me be the first to say it loudly and proudly: I was wrong. For...

May 02, 2022

A Winsome Christian Approach to Assisted Suicide

[Note: What follows is satire. Let the reader understand.] Church, we have a problem. A...

March 2022

March 17, 2022

From Christian Conservatives, Zero Cheers for Dave Rubin

Yesterday, popular anti-woke talk-show host Dave Rubin tweeted out that he and his gay partner...

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Flocking Apart

Lately, I see some variation on this tweet all the time: "I just don't understand....

February 05, 2022

How the Turntables: Christopher Yuan and Rosaria Butterfield On “Side B” Christianity

It's hard for me to believe, but I've been following the whole "homosexuality and the...

January 2022

January 11, 2022

Marvelised Evangelism: How the Babylon Bee Failed Elon Musk

When you’re a Christian creative, and the culture hands you a hot mike, what do...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

Will the Real Santa Claus Please Stand Up?

Ho, ho, ho. Merry beginning of Christmas, you low Protestant plebs! In the spirit of the ongoing...