for The Wall Street Journal: Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks to the Head and the Heart by José A. Alvarado Jr.

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for The Wall Street Journal: Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks to the Head and the Heart

josé a. alvarado jr.

Sep 21, 2022

Location: New York City

Summary

The founder of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church preaches conservative Christianity to a cosmopolitan flock

As a first-year student at Bucknell University in 1968, Rev. Timothy Keller began having doubts about his faith. Growing up Lutheran in Allentown, Pa., he gathered that being a Christian simply meant trying to be good and going to church on Sundays. When he was in high school, however, his parents switched to a conservative evangelical congregation, where he was taught that being a Christian meant “surrendering” his life to Christ. By the time Dr. Keller got to college, he didn’t know what to believe. “I was trying to figure out who I was,” he recalls.

Photographed for The Wall Street Journal, with words by Emily Bobrow.

Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks to the Head and the Heart
The founder of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church preaches conservative Christianity to a cosmopolitan flock.
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