Stories have a certain power.
Protagonists, villains, redemption arcs, rising and falling action—all these elements and more come together and form frameworks for how we see the world...
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My father was an ordinary Italian man, nominally Christian and devout to Saint Antony, but with little grasp of basic gospel truths. One day he was visited by a couple from the local evangelical church. They asked if we were Christians. His answer…
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It is not just our media which is becoming social. An increasing number of voices are pointing out that the extraordinary success of Facebook, Twitter and the like are actually a visible symptom of a much larger trend…
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In Rome, I think the main question people have when it comes to Christianity doesn't really center around God. For example, it is not the question of “Is there a God?” or “How can there be a good God if there is suffering?” or “Is the Bible trustworthy, or is it oppressive and exclusive?” It centers around…
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I'm passionate about answering people's questions, and I particularly enjoy helping people see how the gospel comes to bear on those questions—not in a simplistic way, but in a way that brings a sense of resolution. It’s interesting to…
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When I first started reading Tim Keller's articles, I was fascinated by this whole idea of contextualization. We take this idea for granted now, but 30 years ago it was pretty radical. And the temptation is always to copy. So here I am in the center of Athens, trying to mimic…
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What can the world learn from Europe about evangelism?
Tim Keller, Tim Vreugdenhil, Stephan Pues, and I explored this question at a livestream hosted by City to City Europe on May 6th. Our conversation…
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Today, we're having a conversation about a great question: “Why should Christians in Europe be motivated to share the gospel with anyone else?” The whole vision of City to City Europe is to see…
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Growing up in the 21st century is a scary proposition. With a rapidly-changing job market, contradicting narratives vying for attention, and an unstable romantic landscape, a young adult’s desire for success often gets…
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Over the past generation, UK society has—in line with much of the West—undergone seismic cultural…
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The notion of conversion is in itself a uniquely Christian idea. In much of Asia, non-Christian faiths typically focus more on…
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King Street winds through Newtown like a river giving life to all sorts of communities and endeavours. People come to drink and gain life from the area. Newtown, for some, is…
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The traditional narrative of global missions has been churches from the Christianised (and now, ironically, post-Christian) West reaching the rest of the world. This has…
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As a second-generation Hispanic urbanite, I feel the force of the challenges presented in How to Reach the West Again on a daily basis: in the home, with my neighbors, and even in the church…
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This discussion is premised on two basic ideas about African society.
The first is this: unlike Western society, which Tim Keller observes has rejected the idea of a “sacred order,” the African conception…
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Tim Keller’s How to Reach the West Again lays out a compelling proposal for how we might effectively engage the emerging culture of a post-Christian West today. My hope is that…
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When God moved us to Istanbul, it came as both a surprise and a calling that made sense. Nonetheless, it was a process that took us five years…
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In 2015, I attended City to City Asia Pacific’s Intensive, an international church planting training delivered in three cities. During that time, one of the trainers…
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