Tim Keller

Faith leaders, influencers who died in 2023: Preachers, protesters, writers, singers

By Adelle M. Banks — December 26, 2023
(RNS) — We also bid farewell to some celebrities and influencers whose time on stages sometimes represented public faith or whose lives were strengthened by their personal faith.

Pastor and author Scott Sauls has resigned from Nashville megachurch

By Bob Smietana — November 13, 2023
(RNS) — Sauls, a protege of the late Tim Keller, was placed on indefinite leave this past spring after apologizing for an unhealthy leadership style.

With Keller’s death, ‘young, restless and Reformed’ new Calvinists are at a crossroads

By Bob Smietana and Kathryn Post — June 6, 2023
(RNS) — The Reformed resurgence swept through evangelicalism in the early 2000s, fueled by Calvinism, charisma and complementarianism. Despite the fall of a number of leaders, the movement retains staying power.

What was it about Tim Keller?

By Joshua Chatraw — May 23, 2023
(RNS) — Before anything else vocationally, Tim was a pastor.

Amid post-Trump evangelicalism, Tim Keller revived my faith in the power of faith

By Jonathan Rauch — May 22, 2023
(RNS) — I don’t think he encountered openly gay, outspokenly atheistic Jews every day.

Tim Keller, influential author and pastor, receiving hospice care at home

By Bob Smietana — May 18, 2023
(RNS) — Keller, founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2020.

New Tim Keller Center for Apologetics hopes to help churches reach a changing country

By Bob Smietana — February 7, 2023
(RNS) — Named for the popular author and retired pastor, the new center hopes to help churches deal with a ‘post-Christendom’ America.

Too many Christians are afraid to admit they’re wrong, argues Tim Keller in ‘Forgive’

By Bob Smietana — November 1, 2022
(RNS) — Keller said many of his fellow Christians have become afraid to say they are sorry and admit when they are wrong. Others use forgiveness to hide the truth.

Albuquerque killings send fear through Islamic communities

By Mariam Fam and Stefanie Dazio — August 8, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Earlier this week, police confirmed that local detectives and federal law enforcement officers were looking for possible ties among the separate crimes.

Evangelicals must stop consulting themselves for guidance

By Blake Chastain — February 17, 2022
(RNS) — The United States cannot afford to give evangelicalism the benefit of the doubt again, and evangelicals cannot afford to just talk among themselves any longer. 

Tim Keller’s new book is not about cancer, but race, justice and resurrection

By Maina Mwaura — March 15, 2021
(RNS) — "I wanted the book to focus primarily on the resurrection and the hope that we have," Keller told me.

Prominent pastor and author Tim Keller has pancreatic cancer

By Paul O'Donnell — June 7, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I feel great and have no symptoms,’ Keller, 69, wrote on Facebook and other social media posts. ‘It was what doctors call an incidental pickup.’

Evangelical leaders discuss future of their movement in Trump era

By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 17, 2018
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) — About 50 evangelical leaders met amid concerns that a large segment of their movement had associated itself with President Trump's polarizing politics.

Soul-searching at Princeton Theological Seminary

By Jeff Chu — April 12, 2017
(RNS) Tim Keller gave his lecture, did not get his award and returned to his famous Presbyterian church in New York with his theological ideas intact. Where does that leave the mainline seminary that hosted this controversy?

Why Princeton’s snub of Tim Keller should outrage progressives

By Jonathan Merritt — March 22, 2017
As the cultural tides shift, will progressive Christians make space at the table for conservatives?
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