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Trevin Wax

@trevinwax.bsky.social
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VP of Research and Resource Development at NAMB, Visiting Professor at Cedarville University, Author of The Thrill of Orthodoxy, columnist at TGC

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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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...
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I Post, Therefore I Am
Podcast Episode · Reconstructing Faith with Trevin Wax · S3 E7 · 56m
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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!
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N. Gray Sutanto @graysutanto.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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-...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Prayerlessness is our declaration of independence from God. - Daniel Henderson
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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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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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The enemy of your enemy might actually be another enemy.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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...
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Enough with the Valorization of Doubt!
It isn't doubt that inspires the world but faith overcoming doubt.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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...
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Enough with the Valorization of Doubt!
It isn't doubt that inspires the world but faith overcoming doubt.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My kind of diet.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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-...
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The Worst of All Possible Worlds
A Christian apologetic of malaise
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"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...
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Wreckers
The temptation to be a Wrecker is strong. Augustine reminds us a better way.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A good challenge from Wyatt Graham ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/detr...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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...
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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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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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...
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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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David Cassidy @dcassidytkc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today is a new opportunity to repent of log-jammed eyes rather than act as chair of a speck removal company.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"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...
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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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G. K. Chesterton @gkchesterton.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"Recently, an aged house-church pastor died in one of China’s global cities. Unlike the many famous Christians whose obituaries you read, you’ve never heard this pastor’s name." www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/chin...
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What One Chinese Pastor Can Teach You About Suffering Faithfully
Pastor Wang wasn't in the limelight. But he was faithful and fruitful in his ministry, so he served Jesus well.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We can work toward appreciating and striving for excellence in art from Christians in the next generation, while still showing appreciation for the work of Christians in the past. www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...
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A Brief Defense of the Christian Subculture
Let’s not discount the formative influence of a subculture as a culture.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’ve enjoyed a couple conversations already with Brazilian believers digging into The Thrill of Orthodoxy, now in Portuguese. Will you pray with me for this book to assist in the good work of faithful churches in countries where Portuguese is spoken?
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"This theological history takes the yoke of the human condition off the shoulders of parents. It gives us the philosophical anchor, the confidence, not to shy away from the full reality of human nature as we find it in ourselves and our children." thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
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What ‘Gentle Parenting’ Misunderstands About Human Nature
Plus: Ancient metaphors for understanding the situation before politically conservative Christians.
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Jeremy Treat @jeremytreat.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
If pride (making much of self) is the root of all sin, then worship (making much of God) is the root of all holiness.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Kudos to Chad Spellman @cedarville.bsky.social and Fontes Press for providing a terrific introduction to one of the most important church fathers. A perfect blend of excerpts with just the right amount of commentary — all in understandable English.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
New Year’s morning. Every new year begins with this classic. Looking forward to Anthony Esolen’s translation this year.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas!
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The greatest hindrance to understanding the Bible is not historical but spiritual distance. - Kevin Vanhoozer
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In the world today, we are not in a crisis of experience; we are in a crisis of perception. Life is ablaze, yet we are often blind to the flames. - @jontyson.bsky.social
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Being a fellow for the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics has been intellectually stimulating and spiritually refreshing for me personally. Honored to join these fellow fellows for a conversation about apologetics, evangelism, and the future of the church. Join us! #tgc25
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In the studio today recording narration for season 3 of Reconstructing Faith. Coming in January!
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The writer in me is always annoyed when I see emails or advertisements that say "free gift." Isn't that redundant?
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A terrific overview of Byung-Chul Han, one of today's most perceptive philosophers -- with strong contemporary relevance www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/mode...
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Modernity Makes Us Spiritually Sick: Or Why You Should Read Byung-Chul Han
A reclusive philosopher diagnoses three spiritual sicknesses of our modern society. Can Christianity offer a cure?
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I am fine with dramatization of Bible stories in film... however... The virgin Mary throwing Baby Jesus (in a basket) to Joseph from a thatched roof that's on fire, as Herod's soldiers massacre the people inside... Well, that's a little much, Netflix.
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G. K. Chesterton @gkchesterton.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
All this indescribable thing that we call the Christmas atmosphere only hangs in the air as something like a lingering fragrance or fading vapor from the exultant explosion of that one hour in the Judean hills nearly two thousand years ago.
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Brad East making the case we should lean into and not away from what seems weird in a secular age. Angels!
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Man, I love this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...
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Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)
YouTube video by Coldplay
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Trevin Wax @trevinwax.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I feel like I’ve leveled up in life. I got deputized to tend to the fire in Tolkien’s fireplace at North Wind Manor this morning.
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