The thing I have learned over time is always read @timkellernyc for myself instead of depending on how others characterize him. I really wasn’t aware, early in my career, what a cottage industry it is to attack the man for what he’s said.

What I’ve found in reading Keller is that when the Christian Community moves as a herd in any direction, Keller tends to speak reminding them of theological orthodoxy in the opposite direction.

We don’t always agree. But I’ve found I agree with him way more when I read what he’s actually said than when I read how others have characterized what he said.

I find Christianity to almost be a tightrope. You stand up right and there are voices that want to pull you off into the law or into antinomianism. Sometimes you tip to either side and risk falling off and having to start over.

I’ve come to realize some, and I think Keller is like this or it is how I interpret him, will speak to grace as the Christian community leans over into law and speaks to law as the Christian community leans into grace.

And again, I don’t always agree with him, but I find I agree with him way more than I did when I read him less than I read those who take issue with him, many of whom are good friends.

And I find this when it comes to issues like critical theory; sexual ethics; etc. For example, Keller has written very critically of CT. But still people think he advocates it because he thinks Christians must address racial reconciliation.

10 yrs ago, Keller was talking about Christian compassion and sexual ethics and the right attacked him. Now, few on the right attack him and many on the left do as he talks about the sexual ethics mandate necessitating a type of compassion that doesn’t compromise the ethics.

And on it goes.