Trevin Wax
@trevinwax.bsky.social
VP of Research and Resource Development at NAMB, Visiting Professor at Cedarville University, Author of The Thrill of Orthodoxy, columnist at TGC
Outstanding episode from @trevinwax.bsky.social looking at how digital life is shaping us, our perceptions, expectations, and relationships, featuring @lmsacasas.bsky.social, Christine Rosen, and @samueldjames.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
I Post, Therefore I Am
Podcast Episode · Reconstructing Faith with Trevin Wax · S3 E7 · 56m
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I’d appreciate your prayers as I’m away for the weekend working on a kids version of the counter-catechism project Thomas West and I have coming out this summer. We pray this will be a great tool for discipleship for churches and families.
“When I consider why uneasiness, concerns, and quarrels have been on the rise in multiple denominations and traditions…I can’t help but wonder if, in many cases, the issue isn’t a lack of visibility into church life but rather overexposure.” @trevinwax.bsky.social mereorthodoxy.com/denomination...
Denominations in an Age of Online Over-Exposure
Greater knowledge of the affairs of other churches combined with reduced embodied community has dramatically weakened ecclesial institutions.
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Looking forward to preaching at this event at Beeson, as well as interacting with several lectures from Alister McGrath. Brave the heat of Birmingham this July and join us!
The most joyous part of any book project is writing the acknowledgments. Make it a habit to read the acknowledgments in books - you will find that behind each work is a village of people’s support, insight, and help.
“We think our phone habits are personal, but when millions of people prioritize their screens over the world around them, the consequences ripple outward.” @trevinwax.bsky.social www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
Your Phone Habits Aren’t Just About You
What you do on your phone alters the experiences and expectations of everyone around you, more than you realize.
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I'm over at @mereorthodoxy.bsky.social today revisiting the variety of course-types I experienced in seminary, and offering a proposal for what theological education could look like in a world with fewer residential students. mereorthodoxy.com/reimagining-...
Reimagining Seminary as Neo-Monastic Cohorts
We need to find a model for seminary education that preserves in-person learning and spiritual formation as essential parts of the seminary experience.
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Prayerlessness is our declaration of independence from God. - Daniel Henderson
What seems like an individual choice—taking selfies or curating an image—changes the experience for everyone else. We think our phone habits are personal, but the consequences ripple outward. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
Your Phone Habits Aren’t Just About You
What you do on your phone alters the experiences and expectations of everyone around you, more than you realize.
thegospelcoalition.org
Season 3 has launched! First two episodes released today: 1. What If We Can't Rebuild (feat. Mark Sayers) 2. Three Waves That Have Shaped Your Church Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Then came across this from @trevinwax.bsky.social in which he, sounding a similar note to Ian, observes, “Honesty about our doubt is a virtue, but it’s the 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 that’s commendable, not the doubt itself.” (2/2) www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
Enough with the Valorization of Doubt!
It isn't doubt that inspires the world but faith overcoming doubt.
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Over the holidays, I watched the new film Conclave, a look at the secretive world of Vatican traditions and the political maneuvering of cardinals as they gather to elect a pope. I didn't appreciate the film's take on faith, doubt, and certainty. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
Enough with the Valorization of Doubt!
It isn't doubt that inspires the world but faith overcoming doubt.
thegospelcoalition.org
The cover story for @theatlantic.bsky.social this month is a somber look at the increasingly isolating tendencies of Americans today. But Derek Thompson is admirable in that he doesn't interpret the trends in a pessimistic fatalist fashion. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
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In pondering the many lessons from Theo of Golden, I’ve been thinking about how compelling holiness can be in a world that has forgotten the sacred dignity of humanity and the high calling God has for us. Here's a puzzle I’ve wrestled with for some time. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
The Radiance of Real Holiness
A reflection on why holiness is compelling and why encountering a saintly individual leaves us feeling inspired and enlarged, not inadequate or diminished.
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Good insight here from Taylor Combs -- contrasting moral vs. doctrinal preaching, and advocating affectional preaching, aimed at the transformation of the heart. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/lost...
The Lost Art of Preaching to the Heart - Christianity Today
Why moral inspiration and doctrinal instruction fall short—and how preaching that transforms the heart achieves what both approaches seek.
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New post -- For someone just beginning their faith journey, a “verse of the day” practice may do more harm than good. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
Could a Scripture a Day Lead You Astray?
Questioning the helpfulness of the ‘verse of the day’ approach to Bible intake and considering its potential to mislead untrained readers.
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Typing up my old prayer journals and today I came across this note from 25 years ago this month. The first time I read Confessions. Tonight I finished my 2025 read-through. This year, from Anthony Esolen, whose translation is remarkable.
We in the contemporary Western world are citizens of malaise. We are more likely than any generation prior to throw off religious or moral restraints, yet we are less likely than any generation prior to actually enjoy the fruit of that freedom. www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-worst-...
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
A Christian apologetic of malaise
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Tim Challies provides a Canadian Christian perspective on recent challenges there, the relationship with the United States, and ways of praying for our neighbors to the north. www.challies.com/articles/the...
Trump, Trudeau, and the 51st State
These are strange days in Canada. The incoming President of the United States has suddenly promised to slap a 25% tariff on cross-border trade—a tariff that has the potential to devastate the Canad…
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Paul Kingsnorth's lecture "Against Christian Civilization" is the best kind of audacious. But his sweeping arguments are hindered by significant gaps. I offer some pushback here. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
One Cheer for Christian Civilization? A Response to Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth’s provocative lecture ‘Against Christian Civilization’ is prophetic at many points. But it misses the mark through an overly simplistic vision of Christian faithfulness in public life.
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Here's @ronniemartin.bsky.social with some good suggestions on reimagining prayer (through the psalms) this year @newchurches.bsky.social www.newchurches.com/article/reim...
Reimagining Prayer for the New Year
I think the Psalms actually give us incredibly imaginative examples of how the Lord taught His disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13.
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"It’s also so much easier to destroy and debunk than to build. Whether it’s a complex institution or a tower of blocks, knocking things over is so much quicker than construction." currentpub.com/2024/12/05/w...
Wreckers
The temptation to be a Wrecker is strong. Augustine reminds us a better way.
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A good challenge from Wyatt Graham ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/detr...
How I Am Getting My Mind Back This Year
Relentlessly cut off all technological use that does not have a particular end of being human, advancing some common good, or contributing to my and others’ well-being.
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When we long for God to be the GPS of our soul, what we are really longing for is to avoid the messy dynamics of maturation. We don’t want to struggle through the reality of transformation, so we seek paths where we won’t have to transform. kylestrobel.substack.com/p/god-as-gps...
God as GPS
There is a secret hope in many hearts that God will just be the GPS of their soul.
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New post - Is Eastern Orthodoxy the Next Big Thing for Young Men? What we see in the stats... What we can learn from the stories... www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
Is Eastern Orthodoxy the Next Big Thing for Young Men?
What we see in the stats. What we can learn from the stories.
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Today is a new opportunity to repent of log-jammed eyes rather than act as chair of a speck removal company.
"One of the reasons we don’t temper our use of social media and smartphones is that during moments of physical and mental exhaustion we cope by turning to technology of distraction to entertain us." @oalannoble.bsky.social newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/if-we-know...
If We Know It's Bad for Us, Why Don't We Just Stop Being Addicted to Our Phones?
The role of mental health, life stressors, and habits in our digital distractions
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It is vain to learn to enjoy sport, or to enjoy art, or to enjoy festivity, if we have not learned the fundamental function—how to enjoy enjoyment.