Why We Need To Be Generous
For the past month, my pastor has been doing a sermon series on “money myths.” When he first announced that we were doing a series on money, and more importantly giving, I rolled my eyes. It didn’t hit me until [...]
Art as Worship
I have never considered myself artistic. I was never good at drawing or painting. Even as a child, my favorite thing about my Legos was not building new creations from my imagination, (as my younger brother so often did) but [...]
The Create Commission Update
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Stefan, the director of The Create Commission program a few weeks ago and interview him about his project. In the past year I have come to admire Stefan’s outlook on life and [...]
TCT Nepal Update
As part of our series on program updates from the field, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tek, the director of our TCT Nepal program. It was encouraging to hear about the changes that are already taking place, even though [...]
The Dichotomy of the Modern Church
Keller starts off chapter 3 with a story about a woman in one of his former churches. The deacons in his church gave the woman some money to help her with expenses and in the minds of the deacons she [...]
A New Way to Think About Righteousness
Chapter 1 of Generous Justice starts with, what was for me, a new understanding of righteousness. One that is revolutionary to how we read the Bible. Keller talks about how “righteousness” in the Bible means living in a right relationship [...]
The Inseparable Relationship Between God and Justice
In the introduction to his book Generous Justice, Tim Keller begins with a description of the people for whom he wrote the book. The first person he describes is young Christians who are interested in social justice. He says: “While many [...]
What Have We Done ‘For the Least of These’?
As we write on the topic of foster care, I’ve been doing some research to understand the issue better. The results have been shocking. In 2012, there were approximately 400,000 children in the foster care system in the U.S.[1] In [...]
Culture’s Lies
I sat there nursing my warm cup of chai, trying to stave off the morning chill. It was my first visit to the Ending Gendercide Project in India, and I was trying to take it all in. The normal morning [...]