Collin Hansen

Ben Sasse is my hero for so many reasons, including this: using what remains of his voice to call for rolling back the phone-based childhood, and giving kids the independence they need to develop the skills of democracy: @BenSasse wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

The modern world has given us kingly powers to claim and control. But the more we’ve achieved this magical touch, the more the world becomes dead to us. How we cope tells us who and what we trust. thegospelcoalition.org/article/absurd…

"According to a new survey from the Institute for Family Studies, 60% of 6-year-olds have access to internet-connected tablets, but 58% of kids that age aren’t allowed to play in their own yards unsupervised." @BenSasse @WSJFreeEx wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

Healthy Birds Leave the Nest - Front Porch Republic frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/health…

We're very excited to be welcoming @TGC's @collinhansen to our upcoming Theological Study Conference. In our latest podcast, Collin gives us a great intro to his paper – in short, how understanding Britain then (Lewis, Churchill and post-WWII) can help us understand Britain now. Tune in on your favourite podcast provider – and don't forget to book onto the conference at affinity.org.uk/2027

The easiest way to tell if someone is from the Midwest is to see if they apologize when bumping into an inanimate object

One of the most important books I’ve ever read. @JChengWSJ

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?" esv.org/verses/Heb13.5…

Inspired by the iconic cap worn by Willie Mays at Rickwood Field, the Official 2026 Birmingham Black Barons threads honor a legacy built long before us. 🪡 @MiLB @RickwoodField @B_mont_

@slmandel Bama

The WCWS field is set. Softball fans, who ya got?

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏆 #CATSWIN

So I suppose if you are able to read print but you _only_ listen to audiobooks, that could raise questions about retention, etc. But I suspect most people who avidly listen to books also read many print books. It is ok!

It's a big problem that tons of climate journalism/ discourse has consistently used the worst case outlier model and presented it as a prediction of what was most likely to happen. But as it stands, even the worst-case scenario is being radically adjusted down. Hopefully climate journalists/ advocates don't just adopt the next worst-case model and instead discuss the most likely scenarios modelers have painted. There's lots of work on this: it doesn't help motivate action to do doomsaying. It feed fatalism on the one hand, and mistrust of models/ climate science on the other (when we remain far from our goals but nothing like the "predicted" outcomes manifests).

@CaseyMattox_ Gorgeous area.

I’m from about 10 miles from here. Swam there as a kid.

The Gospel was shared with me, at least in part, 17 times before I believed it. 1. Don't give up sharing the Gospel with people who don't want to hear it. 2. Don't give up praying for people you think would never believe. 3. Hope in a patient God who loves to save rebels.

Some personal news. Come visit me in Hueytown, Alabama!

Also a great reason why you should write as soon as you can. You don't know exactly what you're going to write until you write.

I loved talking with Ben Gladd and Matt Harmon!

Pastors & Church Planters: who is thinking creatively and strategically about buying and financing a church’s first building? I ask because we are no longer in the golden age of planting (1995-2015), and there just aren’t nearly the nationwide resources that there used to be. And for churches/plants in the (expensive) post-Christian West, we don’t have any large, local anchor churches to fall back on either. (Eg, our presbytery has only about 35 churches spread out across CO, WY, & MT, but it’s been at least 20 years since ANY have purchased property). All that to say, this is a HUGE impediment to long-term planting where it’s needed most, and I’ve yet to find really ANYONE taking it seriously. What am I missing? Who do I need to connect with? #PCAGA

This Backdrop: Unbeatable 🤩