Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is a talk that I, Colin Hansen, gave at our TGC-25 National Conference on the question,

can we trust a God who allows evil?

Welcome to breakout round number one. You're in the session. Can we trust a God who allows evil? You have decided to just jump straight off the deep end.

Here at TGC. 25. Often when I'm teaching, I'm an adjunct faculty member at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, and often when I'm teaching, I have bleary-eyed seminary students at 8 a.m.,

but you all just heard from John Piper.

So I'm expecting you to be fairly warmed up for today's session together.

This, I'll just make sure to introduce myself.

My name is Colin Hanson.

I serve as the editor-in-chief,

the vice president of content at the Gospel Coalition. I've been here since 2010. And I also

had the privilege of serving as executive director of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics,

which is kind of a place where a lot of these ideas that I'll be talking about today have been

worked out together with our fellows,

as well as our late namesake, Tim Keller, before he died.

Our sponsor for this breakout is Crossway.

Crossway is a long time and very faithful partner of the Gospel Coalition.

They are a non-profit ministry that publishes gospel-centered Bible-based content

that seeks to honor our Savior and serves his church.

What I'm going to be doing today is not a sort of a word-for-word walk-through,

but inspired by a new book that I have out.

It's with Crossway. It's called Where

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