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I’m a Librarian. How Should I Handle Fights over Book Removals?

I serve in a director position at the district level of our school system. As certain organizations single out books with specific themes they feel shouldn’t be in school libraries, my role is to f...

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Why did the irate bishop of Fulham evict the choir? Because vicars are human: we can go rogue | Ravi Holy

We prize humility, but people expect you to smile and turn the other cheek even when tired or provoked. It’s not easy maintaining the patience of JobRavi Holy is the vicar of Wye in KentJesus famou...

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When Idols of the Heart Are Objects You Can See

When I was a missionary in Taiwan, I was all too familiar with the smell of burning incense offered to Buddhist and Daoist idols. But after retiring from the mission field and returning to the Unit...

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‘What’s the Point?’: Struggle and Hope in Scottie Scheffler’s Interview

Last week, an interview with the number one golfer in the world, Scottie Scheffler, went viral. Speaking before the British Open, Scheffler reflected on his success with a level of vulnerability r...

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Awaiting Christ’s Return with Readiness and Faith (2 Thessalonians 2)

In this lecture, Don Carson examines 2 Thessalonians 2, offering biblical insight into how Christians should anticipate Christ’s return. Carson emphasizes the importance of being steadfast in faith...

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What We Need from Pastor-Apologists

In his lifetime, pastor Tim Keller was most often compared not to any pastor but instead to an academic and novelist, C. S. Lewis. It’s easy to see why––apart from Scripture, no one’s words showed ...

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Ask TGC: What Do We Do with Helpful Resources from Harmful People?

Editors’ note: We received the following questions from a reader: What should we do when we’ve been influenced by pastors (or others) who have become discredited and are no longer fit for ministry...

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Live: Bible Study in the Local Church Matters

In this live episode recorded at TGC25, Melissa and Courtney talk about why group Bible study is so important in the life of a church. They make a case for doing Bible study homework for the sake ...

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Ecclesiastes’s Most Important Word: Not Fleeting but Absurd

The book of Ecclesiastes packs its most shocking yet liberating insight into a single word—a word that tells you that life won’t give you what you want or deserve. And yet receiving that shockingly...

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How Christian Anthropology Explains Pandemic Mistakes

When COVID-19 became a dominant factor in American life in 2020, virtually every institution of higher learning sent students home and went online around spring break. That was the beginning of a n...

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Praise Be to Chance! A Satirical Spoken Word Poem

https://media.thegospelcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/21121059/20250718-094219.m4a Listen to the author read his poem. Before I became a Christian, I believed that everything in the...

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The Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon’s Book Fund

Though Susannah (Susie) Spurgeon is often remembered as the wife of the “Prince of Preachers,” Charles Spurgeon, Susie was also used by the Lord in significant ways. She changed the lives of countl...

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How the Psalms’ Pilgrim Prayers Shaped Me

The first time I seriously prayed a psalm was when my wife had a health scare. All my words dried up that day. I know the Spirit interceded for me with groaning (Rom. 8:26–27), but I still needed w...

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Read Books, Not AI Summaries of Books

Tech writer Packy McCormick recently went viral with a post on X where he offered this “pro tip”: “You can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you.” He was...

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Don’t Reduce Faithfulness to Neutrality: A Response to David French and Chip Gaines

Nearly a decade ago, Chip and Joanna Gaines came under public scrutiny not for anything they said or did directly but because of their membership in an evangelical church. The hosts of the hit HGTV...

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Worship Leader, Tell the Whole Story

If you enter the Lord of the Rings trilogy at the climax, where the One Ring is finally destroyed, chances are you may be only moderately intrigued. Without first seeing the beauty of Middle-earth ...

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Make Faith and Work Part of Your Church’s Ministry

Discussions about faith and work are part of the Protestant Christian tradition. One key misconception the Reformation had to address was the elevation of churchly vocations—like priest, nun, and m...

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Counter-Catechesis for a Secular Age

Lesslie Newbigin was a British missionary and theologian. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne and studying for two degrees at Cambridge, he was commissioned to India as a Church of Scotland missionary and ...

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You’re Never a Burden to Jesus

“Do you think you’re a burden to Jesus?” My breath caught at the gentle question. I hadn’t verbalized it, even to myself. But my heart had begun to understand the root of the struggles I confessed...

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If You Want to Be Sanctified, Rehearse Your Identity

In an age of identity politics, where people are subdivided into an infinite number of victim groups and used as pawns on political and cultural chessboards, Christians may be suspicious of the con...

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Pursuit of Wisdom Is Pursuit of Christ

The start of summer often feels like a new beginning. In the university town where I live, commencement speakers have commissioned their graduates to take their first steps across the stage, grab t...

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