Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary

church in the ancient gospel.

This two-part episode is a conversation that I, Colin Hansen, had with James R. Wood called

Assessing the Ministry of Tim Keller. It was moderated by Peter Lightheart and hosted by

the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama on October 17, 2025. Here's the first half of our

conversation. Welcome to this event, Gospel to the Skeptics assessing the Ministry of Tim Kelper.

We're grateful that you're here this evening, and I'm especially grateful to our two, to the two men who are on stage,

who are highly qualified to discuss this topic.

Let me introduce them.

On my right, Colin Hansen, is the Vice President for

Content at the Gospel Coalition, an organization that Tim Keller helped the found. Also,

he's executive director of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics and the author of

an intellectual biography of Tim Keller. James Wood on my left teaches at Redeemer University

in Ontario, and he's the author of a widely discussed 2022 article, How I Evolved on Tim Keller,

published by First Things Magazine. We invited Colin and James to have this conversation

so months ago. Since then, Charlie Perks' assassination has intensified debates about Keller and legacy.

And we hope that our conversation this evening and this event will clarify and edify as we all together strive

to serve God faithfully in an exhilarating moments of history.

As far as the format, James and Colin will make opening statements and then discuss back

and forth.

I will interview occasionally with questions or to make sure that everyone's getting

roughly equal time.

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