The Gospel Lens

The Gospel Lens is a publication designed to examine current issues in the light of the gospel of Jesus.

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Entrusted, Not Seized

Every assisted-dying law requires patients to administer the medication themselves. That single safeguard reveals two competing, incomplete pictures of a …

A Category God Never Asked For

Aid to the poor gets conditioned on proving worthiness through forms and thresholds. Scripture never asks the poor to prove …

A Courtroom for One

Two women argued their own medical cases in court while in labor, unrepresented. The problem was not the medicine. It …

Wholly Pro-Life

Pro-life often narrows to one issue: abortion. Scripture makes a wider claim: every human being, at every stage and condition, …

The Safe Word We All Need

The world’s top deepfake expert no longer trusts his own eyes anymore. What his crisis reveals about trust, testimony, and …

When the Work Is Finished, Who Are You?

A woman who raised thriving kids is unexpectedly low now that the work is done well. What her ache reveals …

The Diagnosis We’d Rather Give Ourselves

We keep multiplying clinical labels for ordinary struggle. Genesis 3 suggests we are doing something older than diagnosing — we …

What Secular Lament Knows

Don Henley’s “New York Minute” names the dread of radical contingency honestly. The gospel doesn’t dismiss it — it offers …

When Love Is Not Convenient

Costly love and caregiving belong to the same conversation. The gap between the love caregiving requires and the love we …

The Creature We’d Rather Not Be

Self-sufficiency is America’s functional theology. But Scripture presents dependency as the creature’s baseline — and the Incarnation as its redemption …