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Melissa and Courtney discuss how to cultivate discernment when seeking advice.

In the years since he was involuntarily committed to a mental health institution for bipolar disorder, Frederik deBoer has wrestled with both profound gratitude for a system that saved his life and also palpable frustration that his experience of healing…

Not long ago, I had a surreal phone call with two young Christian men serving prison sentences in one of Iran’s hardest prisons.

https://media.thegospelcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/23102213/effective-evangelism.mp3 In the summer of 2021, pastor Luke Peterson moved to Columbus, Ohio, to look for lost people.

What does it mean to be Reformed?

I’ve heard it said more than once: “If the church did its job, the parachurch wouldn’t have to exist.”

What can pastors today learn from the Puritans?

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers.

I work for a property management company that oversees retail space.

When I watch Jesus films, whether the current series The Chosen, The Passion of the Christ in the early 2000s, or even Godspell from the 1970s, I can’t help but ask, Where did they get those stories?

The Lord’s ways are not our ways (Isa. 55:8–9).

When I was in high school, and early on during the summers in college, I spent my days working at a local pharmacy.

Many of us have seen the statistics that Gen Z is the least explicitly Christian or religious generation on record.

The hiss of the cappuccino machine filled the coffee shop, forcing him to lean in and raise his voice.

At the starting line of an Olympic race, nothing looks particularly dramatic.

Because evangelical Christians are typically caricatured, villainized, or misunderstood in Hollywood films, the rare movie that dignifies and sympathizes with believers comes as a refreshing shock.

The power behind AI is the perception of objectivity and infallibility.

Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk with Denise Daniels, the Hudson T.

In early summer 2026, I finally found it.

Last month marked 20 years since my Christianity Today cover story “Young, Restless, Reformed.”

It’s common in our cultural moment to hear that “the rule of law is under attack.”

On the road to Emmaus, the risen Jesus shows the two disciples, “beginning with Moses and all the Prophets,” that the content of Scripture all points to him (Luke 24:25–27).

When I first heard that Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid, cohosts of the ever-fascinating podcast Zealots at the Gate, were writing a book on religion and democracy, I couldn’t have been more thrilled.

Contemporary digital technology allows us to easily watch videos of terrorists beheading victims and offers the possibility of live streamed executions of terrorists.

My world often shrinks to the size of my children’s problems.

In his Confessions, Augustine doubts we can really experience our present moment.

Church ministry has dramatically changed in the last 20 years with the rise of social media, YouTube, and podcasts.

A few years into our marriage, my husband and I realized we needed help.

In the church’s early days, controversies erupted over what books of the Bible were truly authoritative.

Melissa and Courtney talk with Randy Alcorn about what we can and can’t know about the life to come.

The question of using AI during sermon preparation seems to be getting more than a bit of attention these days, and the overall direction of some pastors’ thinking on that question concerns me.

A new book calls readers to leave the safety of the sidelines and step into the arena.

Maybe it was the whale meat I was eating.

We humans are future-oriented creatures.

Christians have faced a deluge of abuse crises in the last decade.

How do you pastor people who consistently drain your time, create relational tension, or make every issue their issue?

Theo of Golden may be the most unlikely breakout bestseller of all time.

I grew up hearing the phrase “All money ain’t good money.”

https://media.thegospelcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/08153804/REC_The-MOB_FCv3.mp3 Theo of Golden may be the most unlikely breakout bestseller of all time.

Can you imagine what it would’ve been like to live in God’s garden and walk with him “in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8)?

As we pursue holiness in this life, Christians should want to know God better.

“How much is enough?”

In September 2026, at a private meeting of TGC Council members, Kevin DeYoung gave a presentation on responding to Christian nationalism.

He looks like what he is: A churchman, specifically, a lay worship pastor.

During a trip to South Africa last year, I visited the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.

Last month we launched registration for our next conference, TGC27, and nearly 2,000 people are already registered to join us April 5 to 7 in Indianapolis.

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers.

The Social Reckoning (rated R for language) opens with a “prologue” in which a drunk white woman has an altercation with two minority police officers.

Welcome to Your Corner of the World with Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop, a podcast with and for Christians engaging their work with the love and justice of the Lord Jesus.

A new report from the Institute for Family Studies found that religious married couples—those who attend church at least twice a month—have sex at significantly higher rates than secular married couples and enjoy it more.