in memoriam

"Hi, my name is Tim Keller." Those few words would begin a seven-year friendship between me and Tim.

To many, Tim Keller was proof that you could be a Christian, an intellectual, and a redemptive presence in cities. What made him so iconic?

Renowned pastor and author Tim Keller passed away on Friday, May 19, following a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Keller was 72.

Born on September 23, 1950, Keller received his education from Westminster Theological Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Bucknell University. He was the chairman and co-founder of The Gospel Coalition and Redeemer City to City. He was also the Senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and the author of nearly three dozen books. Keller stepped down from his senior pastor role in 2017 to focus his attention on his non-profit organization, Redeemer City to City.

Amid Keller’s passing, faith leaders are lauding him for his work in urban ministry and life as a man of God.

Professional wrestler and devout Christian 'Superstar' Billy Graham passed away Wednesday at 79 after battling a long illness.

Author and pastor Tim Keller, who planted a church in New York City that grew to 5,000 attendees and who pioneered work in urban ministry, died Friday after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 72.  

An anonymous buyer has returned personal items once belonging to the late pastor Charles Stanley to his family after purchasing them on eBay from Stanley's grandson.

A man killed eight people and injured at least 10 others after he drove his SUV into a crowd of people waiting at a bus stop on Sunday outside a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas.

The late Dr. Charles Stanley's grandson has issued an apology after putting up his grandfather's personal items for sale.

The grandson of late pastor Dr. Charles Stanley is facing backlash for putting his grandfather's personal items up for sale on eBay.

Famed—and infamous—talk show host Jerry Springer died yesterday at the age of seventy-nine after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. Jene Galvin, a family spokesperson and longtime friend of Springer’s, recalled how “Jerry’s ability to connect with people was at the heart of his success in everything he tried, whether that was politics, broadcasting or just joking with people on the street who wanted a photo or a word.”

Chances are, however, that most will remember Springer in a different light.

As Neil Genzlinger describes, Jerry Springer “went from a somewhat outlandish political career to an almost indescribably outlandish broadcasting career with ‘The Jerry Springer Show,’ which by the mid-1990s was setting a new standard for tawdriness on American television, turning the talk-show format into an arena for shocking confessions, adultery-fueled screaming matches and not infrequent fistfights.”

So which was the real Jerry Springer? The answer seems to have been a bit of both.