Gospelbound

Top 10 Theology Stories Since 2000: Part 2


Listen Later

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.

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    GospelboundBy The Gospel Coalition, Collin Hansen

    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7
    • 4.7

    4.7

    333 ratings


    More shows like Gospelbound

    View all
    Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life by Tim Keller

    Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

    16,071 Listeners

    TGC Podcast by The Gospel Coalition

    TGC Podcast

    1,132 Listeners

    Help Me Teach The Bible by The Gospel Coalition, Nancy Guthrie

    Help Me Teach The Bible

    750 Listeners

    The Russell Moore Show by Christianity Today, Russell Moore

    The Russell Moore Show

    1,136 Listeners

    Word Of The Week by The Gospel Coalition

    Word Of The Week

    77 Listeners

    Mere Fidelity by Mere Fidelity

    Mere Fidelity

    355 Listeners

    CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet by CCEF

    CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

    302 Listeners

    Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks by 9Marks

    Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

    720 Listeners

    Knowing Faith by Kyle Worley, JT English, Jen Wilkin

    Knowing Faith

    2,361 Listeners

    The Crossway Podcast by Crossway

    The Crossway Podcast

    636 Listeners

    Read The Bible by The Gospel Coalition

    Read The Bible

    125 Listeners

    TGC Q&A by The Gospel Coalition

    TGC Q&A

    180 Listeners

    Let's Talk by Jackie Hill Perry, Melissa Kruger, Jasmine Holmes

    Let's Talk

    1,123 Listeners

    Life and Books and Everything by Clearly Reformed

    Life and Books and Everything

    642 Listeners

    Trinity Forum Conversations by The Trinity Forum

    Trinity Forum Conversations

    221 Listeners

    You're Not Crazy by Sam Allberry, Ray Ortlund, The Gospel Coalition

    You're Not Crazy

    211 Listeners

    Recorded by The Gospel Coalition

    Recorded

    132 Listeners

    Confronting Christianity with Rebecca McLaughlin by Rebecca McLaughlin

    Confronting Christianity with Rebecca McLaughlin

    321 Listeners

    Glo by The Gospel Coalition

    Glo

    46 Listeners

    Post-Christianity? by The Gospel Coalition

    Post-Christianity?

    80 Listeners

    The Carson Center Podcast by The Gospel Coalition, Don Carson

    The Carson Center Podcast

    53 Listeners

    The Everyday Pastor by Matt Smethurst, Ligon Duncan

    The Everyday Pastor

    87 Listeners

    Doctrine Matters with Kevin DeYoung by Crossway

    Doctrine Matters with Kevin DeYoung

    155 Listeners

    The Deep Dish by The Gospel Coalition

    The Deep Dish

    319 Listeners