Imagine if Tim Read Tim
Would Tim Challies tweak this post on how to lose your zeal for Christ for Tim Keller’s discomfort? Love the world. “How can we be zealous for heaven when our hearts are wrapped up in earthly civic...
View ArticleWhen All Means Some
One of the favorite arguments of Neo-Calvinists is to go to Col 1 to support every-square inch Christianity: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things...
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Church Planters in the City Have it Rough
But is that because the city is so tough or because the folks who go into urban church planting actually believe the hype? City people are fast paced. They adapt to change without giving too much...
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Ministry Inside the Bubble
Redeemer NYC has been in existence for almost twenty years and by this point it may be worth asking whether Tim Keller and company have transformed or been transformed by the bubble. Consider, for...
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Human Bodies Waste Away But Cities Abide (psshaw)
One of yesterday’s sermons has me thinking: when will the neo-Calvinists ever do justice to the physical-spiritual dualism that legitimately arises in Paul’s teaching? For we know that if the tent that...
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Gospel Coalition as Harlem Globe Trotters
One of our many southern correspondents notified me of TGC’s year-end pitch for charitable donations. At the end of Collin Hanson’s post is a link to TGC’s 2016 Annual Report. Curiously absent are the...
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Christians and the Life of the Mind
A popular perception out there is that Tim Keller is a version — maybe the most popular one — of a Protestant intellectual. Back when Nicholas Kristof interviewed Keller in the pages of the New York...
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Why Would Tim Keller Accept Princeton’s Invitation?
Owen Strachan is at a loss to explain why Princeton Seminary has decided to withdraw the Kuyper Prize from Tim Keller: How odd that this fracas has happened at Princeton. Princeton Seminary is the...
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Remember When Being Nice Would Win the Day?
How a little reminder of 1929 clears the cobwebs. Once upon a time, the Gospel Allies scored points against Reformed confessionalists by claiming the high ground of nice. Remember when Jared Wilson...
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The World Is Turning Rod and Leaving Tim Behind
The piece on Rod Dreher and the Benedict Option in the New Yorker was remarkable on several levels. It was generally positive, respectful, and long. This was the case despite Dreher’s tendency to sound...
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TKNY Even in UK
Even while in Ireland, I could not evade Tim Keller. One morning while reading the magazine Standpoint, I read a column which contained this: As well as being one of the great delaying mechanisms of...
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When Did Philadelphia Turn into San Diego?
I was in the nation’s original capital yesterday and saw this at 22nd and Walnut: It replaces this: Which makes me think this has a point: Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, a generous tax abatement...
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Odd What Big Cities Do To Church Life
Is Tim Keller getting cold feet about “the city”? He bears his apparent burden to the other coolest guy in the Reformedish room, Jamie Smith: JS: As a pastor, and now increasingly a theological...
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Transformationalize This
Michael Oakeshott on culture (from Alan Jacobs): A culture, particularly one such as ours, is a continuity of feelings, perceptions, ideas, engagements, attitudes and so forth, pulling in different...
View ArticleTransforming New York City Was Always Going to be a Slog
Kyle B. Roberts explains: Evangelical New Yorkers did nothing less than make the city between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Their systematic strategy of aggressively building in new...
View ArticleChurch as Start-Up or Farm?
He who has eyes, let him see. She who has ears, let her hear. 18 “Hear then the parable of the sower: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and...
View ArticleBack in the Day When Some Were Planting PCA Congregations in NYC (and others...
It was not an innocent time. Robert Hughes, art critic for Time magazine, wrote a book about cultural antagonisms in the United States, The Culture of Complaint. David Denby, a movie critic for New...
View ArticleHad Hoped to See this in Dallas while at General Assembly
But Rain Bomb 2019 meant we could only circle First Park on its side streets. Here’s why it is intriguing: The one constant about World’s Fairs and Expositions—from Chicago’s White City to the several...
View ArticleWhite Christian Nationalism for Urban Hipster Presbyterians?
Remember when some Presbyterians were quick to link a certain failed mass-shooter with theology in the OPC? And remember also when critics of President Trump were quick to associate (in a...
View ArticleAnd You Thought Presbyterian Polity Is Onerous
So many alliances and networks, so little church discipline: The roots of the Sojourn Network go back to the early 2000s, where Sojourn was invited to join Acts 29, a diverse global family of...
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