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Podcast: MinistryWatch Podcast
Episode: Ep. 300: The Gospel Coalition’s Collin Hansen on Tim Keller
Description: On today’s EXTRA episode, I’m sharing a conversation I had recently with Collin Hansen. Collin is editor in chief at The Gospel Coalition, and he is the author of an intellectual biography of Tim Keller called “Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation.”
I think it’s fair to call Tim Keller the “Accidental Celebrity.” When he went to New York City to found Redeemer Presbyterian Church in the 1980s, a clear-eyed assessment of his chances for success would have placed that number very low. He didn’t do any of the things that wannabe celebrities would...