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Gospelbound, hosted by Collin Hansen for The Gospel Coalition, is a podcast for those searching for firm faith in an anxious age. Each week, Collin talks with insightful guests about books, ideas, and how to navigate life by the gospel of Jesus Christ in a post-Christian culture.

  1. HACE 10 H

    How to Save Western Civilization with Allen Guelzo

    Is there a fate worse than condemnation?  Yes, say Allen Guelzo and James Hankins in their new textbook, The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition: Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West. Worse than everyone hating you is no one remembering you.   Right now for Western civilization, the former is leading to the latter. Having been widely condemned as oppressive, imperialist, colonizing, and appropriating, Western civilization is sometimes not even taught, let alone celebrated for producing the moral, technological, political, economic, and lifestyle achievements that give shape to our world. The Golden Thread helps in remembering and teaching without ignoring the failures and shortcomings of Western civilization. The textbook collaborators Guelzo and Hankins have been acquainted for more than 50 years. Hankins wrote volume one, and Guelzo has written volume two. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton University. Guelzo is a long-time favorite writer of mine, not least for his work on the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, for which he last appeared on Gospelbound in 2024. I’m honored to host him again as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, one of the hinge points in Western civilization in that memorable year of 1776. In This Episode: 00:00 – Why Western civilization slips away when taken for granted 00:25 – Introducing Allen Guelzo and The Golden Thread 02:24 – How should we define Western civilization? 08:02 – The fall of communism and the West’s crisis of confidence 11:23 – China, radical Islam, Russia, and civilizational conflict 12:47 – Self-criticism as the West’s strength and danger 15:38 – World wars, Darwin, Freud, communism, and lost confidence 19:49 – The atomic age and the misuse of scientific achievement 22:09 – Defending the West without triumphalism 25:38 – Winston Churchill, trauma, and Christian civilization 30:15 – Adenauer, de Gaulle, and rebuilding Europe after 1945 32:38 – Strange defeat, German memory, and Russia’s missed moment 38:37 – C. S. Lewis, John Paul II, and Christianity in a skeptical age 39:28 – Contingency, crisis, and the decisions that shape history 42:24 – Christianity, Greece, Rome, and the “layer cake” of the West 51:33 – Technology, memory, and the future of civilization 53:39 – Lincoln, King, Augustine, and recovering the tradition 58:17 – Could artificial intelligence revive classical education? 59:37 – Closing encouragement Resources Mentioned: The Golden Thread Volume I by Allen C. Guelzo & James Hankins The Golden Thread Volume II by Allen C. Guelzo & James Hankins The Golden Thread Substack The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis God in the Dock by C. S. Lewis Dominion by Tom Holland Lord of the Flies by William Golding — — — 📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1 h

  2. 5 MAY

    Why Therapy Can’t Replace the Church

    You will find many books on the biblical and practical importance of the local church. I wrote one myself a few years ago with Jonathan Leeman called Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. But few books can match the way Brad Edwards shows us the need for the church amid rampant anxiety, division, and individualism. Not only our churches but even whole societies would be transformed by implementing the wisdom found in this book, called The Reason for Church.  Brad is the church planter of The Table Church in Lafayette, Colorado. His debut book has been justly acclaimed. He won the 2025 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award and also finished first in the Church and Pastoral Leadership category. He was the winner of The Gospel Coalition's award for First-Time Author that year as well. I’m grateful that he joins me now to talk about everything from authority and institutions to anxiety and whether unity should be the goal for a church. In This Episode: 00:00 – Opening: power, trust, and the temptation toward conformity 00:26 – Introducing Brad Edwards and The Reason for Church 01:41 – Ranking the causes behind declining trust in church authority 04:05 – Accountability, social media, and the limits of online justice 08:25 – Churches, institutions, platforms, and marketplace logic 11:17 – What changes people’s minds about the need for church? 13:27 – Church planting in Boulder County and Colorado’s anti-institutional culture 17:01 – Therapy culture, spiritual abuse, and what the book could not fully address 22:19 – Institution building, movements, and building a remnant 26:30 – Technology, schedules, and the challenge of spiritual formation 29:09 – Individuality versus individualism 34:39 – Should unity be the goal of a church? 37:49 – What surprised Brad most about becoming a pastor 39:21 – AI, agency, and the future of formation 43:07 – Hartmut Rosa, resonance, gambling, and the desire for control 46:55 – AI, education, responsibility, and authorship 52:05 – The church as remnant and refuge in a changing world 53:19 – What pastors want their congregations to know 56:41 – Closing and Gospelbound outro Resources Mentioned: The Reason for Church by Brad Edwards Rediscover Church by Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam Yuval Levin’s work on institutions Bully Pulpit by Michael J. Kruger GIRLS® by Freya India The Reason for God by Tim Keller Center Church by Tim Keller Dominion by Tom Holland Habits of the Heart by Robert Bellah The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa PostEverything, Brad Edwards’s podcast with John Homsher Harper’s Magazine article on young AI founders   — — —   📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    57 min

  3. 21 ABR

    On Losing Tim and Why Kathy Keller Published a Book of His Sermons on Sin

    Tim Keller preached a series of sermons in the 1990s called “The Faces of Sin.” It did not go over well in New York. Angered by the liturgical confession of sin, one woman waited until after the sermon and yelled at Tim, “Neither I nor any of my children will ever confess to being sinners!”  Naturally, Tim’s wife, Kathy, decided these would make good sermons to turn into a book! That’s what we have in the new book What Is Wrong with the World? The Surprising, Hopeful Answer to the Question We Cannot Avoid, published by Zondervan. One quote I think captures the book’s argument: “When we realize we are not a victim of our circumstances but a sinner who can call on someone much greater than ourselves to care for us, we can begin to truly live.” That’s the surprisingly hopeful message of the gospel: our sin is the problem with the world. But all of us can be saved by grace when we confess that sin, repent of that sin, and trust in Christ. Easy enough, right? Remember that woman in New York. It’s no small thing to confess your sin. And ALL of us must confess our sin. Here’s what Tim wrote: “No other religion says that the lowest person in the gutter and the most moral, upstanding citizen in the world are equally lost, equally need to be saved by grace, and can only be saved by grace alone.” What an honor to be joined again on Gospelbound by Kathy Keller about sin, grace, and the gospel. In This Episode:00:00 – Cold open: “the sin beneath the sin”00:39 – Introducing Tim Keller’s Faces of Sin sermons and the new book02:25 – Idolatry, grief, and losing what feels like “everything”04:15 – Blind spots, community, and uncovering hidden sins07:14 – “What’s wrong with the world?” starting with ourselves08:13 – G. K. Chesterton and the sins of omission11:31 – The gospel is bitter at first bite and sweet within15:55 – Missing Tim and resting in God’s grace16:48 – “Nathans,” correction, and giving one another “hunting licenses”18:30 – Parenting regrets and learning consequences the hard way22:22 – Why the gospel gives hope in the face of failure22:52 – How Tim Keller is misunderstood today30:43 – The Hopewell years and learning mercy ministry34:55 – Kathy’s favorite Tim Keller book: Jonah / The Prodigal Prophet37:57 – The books Tim Keller hoped to write40:25 – “Identity received or achieved” and unfinished work41:35 – Closing reflections42:02 – Outro Resources Mentioned: What Is Wrong with the World? by Tim Keller The Faces of Sin (Sermon Series) by Tim Keller The Prodigal Prophet by Tim Keller Ministries of Mercy by Tim Keller The Mortification of Sin by John Owen Making Sense of Us by TGC and The Keller Center The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics   — — —   📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    42 min

  4. 7 ABR

    What Keeps Carl Trueman Awake at Night

    Western culture today largely lacks a sense of consecration, of setting apart the ordinary as holy. Yet somehow we still have a strong impulse toward desecration, of turning the holy into the ordinary. Why have we lost the taste of the good while developing a taste for the bad?  That’s a core question at the heart of Carl Trueman’s new book, The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity, published by Penguin Random House’s Sentinel imprint. Carl is a professor of biblical and theological studies at Grove City College and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He was a guest on Gospelbound in 2020 for his highly acclaimed, bestselling book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.  In his new book Trueman writes, “Transgression of the sacred is exhilarating precisely because it makes us feel like gods, the creators of our own meanings and our own selves. All we need to do is cross lines previously enforced by the idea of God and we thereby assume the role of being gods.” Desecration is how we communicate authenticity, perhaps the most important value for the modern self.  This entire project has backfired. Let’s hear from Carl about why. In This Episode:00:00 – Carl Trueman on desecration and the modern crisis of humanity02:30 – Why write another book after The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self?04:22 – Why the sexual revolution sits at the center of the story06:11 – Cultural Christianity, conversion, and why truth still matters10:30 – Nietzsche’s “madman” and the collapse of moral meaning12:56 – Authenticity, evangelism, and the uphill battle against expressive individualism18:23 – Do the revolutions of modernity actually deliver what they promise?21:04 – Genetic selection, artificial wombs, and the moral vacuum of tech culture27:29 – Social acceleration, anxiety, and the instability of modern life30:23 – Technology, human limits, and the need for a normative view of humanity35:58 – Assisted suicide, autonomy, and why stories matter more than abstractions41:53 – The transgender movement, fairness, and transhumanism45:44 – Why Christian nationalism is not the answer49:40 – Creed, cult, code, congregational singing, and hospitality as a plan of consecration55:53 – Outro Resources Mentioned: The Desecration of Man by Carl Trueman The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor   — — —   📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    56 min

  5. 24 MAR

    Top 10 Theology Stories Since 2000: Part 2

    Join Collin Hansen, Michael Graham, and Sarah Zylstra as they continue to look back on the top theology stories from the last 25 years. In part 1, they counted down stories #10 to #6. Now in part 2, Graham and Zylstra walk with Hansen through his stories #5 down to #1. In This Episode: 00:00:00 – Why homosexuality became a presenting issue dividing the church 00:00:41 – Sarah Zylstra introduces the second half of the top 10 list 00:01:34 – Recap of stories 10 through 6 from the previous episode 00:03:06 – Number 5: COVID-19 shuts the world down 00:04:57 – COVID, institutional mistrust, and the authority of scientists 00:06:25 – A decade of digital change compressed into one year 00:09:22 – What COVID did to church attendance and online ministry 00:11:38 – Rediscovering embodied worship after metaverse-era predictions 00:14:11 – Number 4: The Trump era and its theological consequences 00:15:41 – Supreme Court appointments, religious liberty, and legal change 00:18:50 – Dobbs, abortion, and evangelical disengagement from the pro-life cause 00:19:54 – Immigration as a leading social and theological issue 00:22:13 – Executive power, post-liberalism, and Christian nationalism 00:24:05 – Number 3: Obergefell and the moral transformation of marriage 00:25:20 – Sexuality, family, and the collapse of shared moral norms 00:27:48 – Don Carson’s 2005 warning about homosexuality as a presenting issue 00:29:22 – Mainline denominational splits and the global Methodist divide 00:32:11 – Why many evangelicals held to historic sexual ethics 00:33:17 – How race and sexuality became bundled in public discourse 00:36:56 – Rebecca McLaughlin and navigating race and sexuality faithfully 00:37:21 – Number 2: The iPhone and the shift to digital life 00:38:05 – Smartphones, fertility decline, and changing social habits 00:39:13 – Social contagion, gender identity, and online plausibility structures 00:40:08 – Podcasts, YouTube, AI, and the reshaping of knowledge 00:43:44 – Mike Graham on screens, AI, and the future of epistemology 00:48:00 – Individualized media diets, institutional decline, and gender divergence 00:50:06 – AI sycophancy, abuse scandals, and algorithm-shaped reality 00:53:51 – Why digital life felt like it could have been number one 00:54:26 – Number 1: Why 9/11 tops the list 00:56:23 – Christianity, Islam, and civilizational conflict 01:00:07 – 9/11, the new atheism, and the category of “fundamentalism” 01:02:01 – Theodicy, suffering, and major disasters after 9/11 01:03:12 – Mike Graham on why 9/11 is civilizationally decisive 01:06:17 – Middle Eastern Christians, Iraq, Syria, and migration into Europe 01:07:11 – Signs of God’s providence and good emerging from tragedy 01:09:18 – Tim Keller, New York church planting, and the young, restless, and Reformed movement 01:12:58 – Closing reflections on God’s providence over the last 25 years Resources Mentioned: Rediscover Church by Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman The Secular Creed by Rebecca McLaughlin The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich Generations by Jean M. Twenge Timothy Keller by Collin Hansen — — — 📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1 h 14 min

  6. 10 MAR

    Top 10 Theology Stories Since 2000: Part 1

    Join Collin Hansen, Michael Graham, and Sarah Zylstra as they look back on the top theology stories from the last 25 years. In part 1 of this two-part series, Graham and Zylstra walk with Hansen through his stories #10 down to #6. Since the year 2000, religion in America has changed dramatically. As recently as the 1990s, religion in America was what Tim Keller called “thick”: In general, many clergy were held in high esteem, churches were respected, and people either belonged to a congregation or knew that would be a good idea. Yet since 2000, the percent of religious Americans has dropped and the number of nones (no religion) has jumped up from 8 percent to 22 percent—and climbing. So while social commentators lament how much time Americans spend on our screens, describe how views on sexuality have drastically changed, identify how our politics have become sharply polarized, and observe how mental health especially in Gen Z has declined, they often miss the biggest story of all, the one underneath all the others—the decline in attention and deference to God. In This Episode: 00:00 — The Great Dechurching: belief vs. disaffiliation 00:32 — Sarah hosts: why a 30,000-foot view now 03:26 — “Factfulness” and why we overlook positive trends 05:00 — #10: Global church leadership moving south 09:02 — Theological education hasn’t moved south at the same pace 10:03 — #9: Rise of non-denominational congregations 14:49 — Data point: non-denominationalism grows from ~3% (1972) to ~14–15% today 17:27 — Why churches drop denominational labels; media amplification; scandal-by-association 20:00 — #8: China’s church growth—and crackdown 22:07 — India, Hindu nationalism, and persecution; Nigeria and the Africa frontier 25:41 — #7: The Dechurching of America 30:24 — Apologetics after dechurching: from hostility to apathy 34:25 — Are churches fewer but stronger? 36:39 — Retention vs. conversion: why evangelical identity declines less 39:09 — #6: The Great Awokening (Ferguson to Floyd) 47:20 — Four paradigms for navigating race in America 52:44 — Wrap-up: Part 2 teaser 53:10 — Outro + where to find the podcast/newsletter Resources Mentioned: Factfulness by Hans Rosling The Reason for God by Timothy Keller Making Sense of God by Timothy Keller A Secular Age by Charles Taylor Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi — — — 📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    54 min

  7. 24 FEB

    How Your Church Witnesses to the World

    When we receive applications for fellows at The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, we ask them to answer the question, “What one thing should Christians do right now to introduce their neighbors to Jesus?” It’s not that we think there’s only one answer. It’s that we want them to identify the top priority. Last year we were surprised when every applicant gave the same answer. They talked about the public witness of gathered Christians, the church. Maybe they were responding to negative press about the church, going back 25 years to the Catholic abuse scandal at the same time the internet became ubiquitous. Or maybe they were expressing renewed appreciation for the gathered church after the COVID-era shutdowns and public disorder. Either way, they were going back to biblical concept rooted in Israel’s testimony to the nations, and the early church in the book of Acts that found favor with all.  Bob Thune is a fellow for the Keller Center and writes about this so-called ecclesial apologetics in a chapter for our new book, The Gospel After Christendom: An Introduction to Cultural Apologetics, published by Zondervan Reflective. He’s also a featured teacher in an exciting new video small-group curriculum called Making Sense of Us, published by The Gospel Coalition and Keller Center. His session, recorded against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty in New York City, covers the cultural narrative we tell each other in the modern West about liberty. We believe this curriculum can help you, especially young adults, to both evangelize and edify. When you watch and study with other church members, and even non-Christians, you can learn together about the Bible’s better story about liberty, which we live out together in the church.  In This Episode: 00:00 – A deeper freedom: set free from self for love  00:32 – Keller Center fellows: why the gathered church matters for witness  01:41 – Introducing Bob Thune, ecclesial apologetics, and Making Sense of Us  02:39 – Lesslie Newbigin and a missionary posture toward the modern West  05:06 – Is Omaha post-Christian? Modern Western culture everywhere  06:34 – Ecclesial apologetics despite church messiness  09:17 – Gospel doctrine and gospel culture (truth, goodness, beauty)  11:03 – Christian hospitality: making room for outsiders with conviction and listening  17:03 – Why this differs from the seeker movement  19:10 – Transition to Making Sense of Us: liberty and the Statue of Liberty backdrop  20:16 – Modern misconception: freedom as “freedom from” (negative liberty)  22:17 – Galatians 5: freedom subverted and fulfilled—freedom for love and service  24:48 – Choice as happiness: dislodging the assumption pastorally  26:55 – Cultural pressure points: teen mental health, friendship decline, obligation  29:15 – Autonomy and assisted dying/euthanasia debates  31:56 – More choice, more frustration: speech platforms and “Netflix paralysis”  33:50 – Patience for contested proposals (post-liberalism, nationalism, etc.)  35:01 – “Freedom for” the common good and a shared human project  39:13 – Three church roles: solidarity-bringer, subversive fulfillment, alternative city  43:27 – Augustine’s lesson: church power, loss, and enduring hope  44:05 – Recommended reading and resources roundup  Resources Mentioned: The Gospel After Christendom by Collin HansenMaking Sense of Us by John Starke, Rebecca McLaughlin, Sam Chan, Trevin Wax, Rachel Gilson, Bob Thune, Glen Scrivener, Michael KellerThe Air We Breathe by Glen Scrivener The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis Democracy and Solidarity by James Davison Hunter City of God by Augustine of Hippo— — — 📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    45 min

  8. 10 FEB

    How Your Investing Could Change the World

    “Do any of us really want to be in the position where our retirement account grows in sync with the cancer ward?” That’s the question posed by Robin John about tobacco, responsible for 100 million deaths in the last 100 years. Naturally all of us would say no, we don’t want to benefit from other people dying. Yet as Robin points out in his new book, The Good Investor: How Your Work Can Confront Injustice, Love Your Neighbor, and Bring Healing to the World, many of us do hold mutual funds that invest in tobacco companies. We just don’t know it. Come to think of it, how much do we know about any of our investments, especially in long-term retirement accounts? Robin John is the cofounder and CEO of Eventide, an asset management firm dedicated to honoring God and investing in companies that create compelling value for the common good. His vision for Eventide's values-based investing shows how our work can benefit everyone and not just bolster the bottom line for a fortunate few. I’d go so far as to say our world can be a much better place if investors—and employees of all kinds—will learn from his example and prioritize what really matters now, and in eternity. In This Episode 0:00 – Joy, purpose, and God’s design for everyday work 1:49 – Why The Good Investor is ultimately a book about joy 2:48 – Growing up in Kerala, India, and immigrating to the U.S. 4:42 – Community, individualism, and caring for the vulnerable 7:41 – Returning to India and confronting workplace injustice 10:49 – Rethinking success, profit, and the purpose of work 11:53 – Why Christians must examine their investments 14:33 – What does it mean to “root for” a company’s success? 15:36 – Discernment, gray areas, and biblical values in investing 18:07 – Avoiding evil and actively pursuing the common good 19:43 – Weaponry, conscience, and consistency at Eventide 20:13 – The cautionary story of Bill Hwang and ill-gotten gain 23:19 – The false divide between faith and work 25:07 – How investing has changed since 2008 27:14 – What ESG investing is—and where it diverges from Christianity 31:19 – Mission alignment vs. values alignment 32:23 – Encouragement for ordinary, faithful work 34:44 – Legacy, goodness, and hearing “well done” Resources Mentioned The Good Investor by Robin John— — — 📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound 🎁 Help The Gospel Coalition build up a renewed church for tomorrow. Let's Build Together: Donate Today at https://www.tgc.org/together 🎧 Don’t miss an episode of Gospelbound with Collin Hansen ▫ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelbound/id1499898207 ▫ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kRYr5FTKr5ru1N7MR65Br ✅ SUBSCRIBE:  ▫ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegospelcoalition ▫ TGC Updates: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/newsletters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    37 min
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Gospelbound, hosted by Collin Hansen for The Gospel Coalition, is a podcast for those searching for firm faith in an anxious age. Each week, Collin talks with insightful guests about books, ideas, and how to navigate life by the gospel of Jesus Christ in a post-Christian culture.

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    The Gospel Coalition
  • Creador
    The Gospel Coalition, Collin Hansen
  • Años de actividad
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodios
    190
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