As president of The Gospel Coalition, I get to celebrate exciting and important initiatives as well as the people who labor behind the scenes to make them happen.
In that spirit, I want to introduce the staff behind The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics.
Collin Hansen serves as the executive director of this new center. He provides overall leadership, vision, and programming direction. Many of you will already be familiar with Collin from his long tenure at TGC, his engaging interviews on the Gospelbound podcast, and his many books, including most recently Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation. He continues in his roles as TGC’s vice president of content and editor in chief.
Michael Graham serves as the program director of the center, overseeing its project management, logistics, partnerships, and day-to-day operations. He is new to our TGC team, but you might be familiar with him from his article “The Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism” or his work as executive producer and writer of the As in Heaven podcast. Michael has recently completed fascinating new research with Jim Davis and Ryan Burge, and you can read more from them this fall in their book, The Great Dechurching.
I’d like to also thank several other TGC leaders who have helped us prepare this center for today’s launch. Our board subcommittee—Dan Doriani, Phil Ryken, and Darryl Williamson—has offered valuable feedback and direction throughout this process. And Brannon McAllister, our managing director of media and a veteran of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, has contributed not only to the center’s graphic design but also to its overall vision.
We’re so excited about how God is going to use this center and the wonderful people associated with it to help Christians close the back door of the church, open the front door, and send out the equipped.
For more information, you can read more about The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics if you haven’t already.
Julius Kim
President of The Gospel Coalition