The Gospel Coalition Confronts "Queers for Palestine"

The results will likely not surprise you.

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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I clicked on The Gospel Coalition’s My Top 10 Theology Stories of 2023, but what I got was beyond parody. I don’t necessarily mean beyond parody in the sense that it’s so on the nose that you can’t even make fun of it. It’s more like the whole thing is so incoherent that it defies critique. You can’t critique an argument until you understand it, and the argument being made here is a tangle of Christmas tree lights. 

“But Tyler,” you might say, “it’s just a list of the Gospel Coalition’s top 10 theology stories of the year. Why would a list like that even have an argument?” Dear Reader, you’re starting to see the problem. This is the sort of thing I’d normally ignore, since I assume most of my subscribers don’t really need any encouragement to side-eye The Gospel Coalition. But this list, written by TGC editor-in-chief Collin Hansen, is powered by a very sad assumption that I think is worth tackling.