How to respond to a changing culture against Christ
My family's beloved thirteen-year-old dog is named Keller. Every day he serves as a reminder of how a certain Presbyterian pastor in New York City influenced me in the early stages of my faith. I continue to admire him, even if I have turned elsewhere for guidance in our contemporary political moment. If you were evangelical during the 2000s, Tim Keller was a name you couldn’t avoid. After completing theological studies at Gordon-Conwell in 1975, Keller accepted a senior pastor position in rural Virginia. He honed his preaching craft there, delivering multiple sermons a week for nine years. In the late 1980s, he started a church in New York City, which became Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Starting in 1989 with only fifty members, Redeemer eventually drew upward of 5,000 people on Sundays and launched a church planting network that has led to over 800 new churches in cities worldwide. The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus noted in these pages that impressive work was happening in Kelle...