Audio Article: Why We Need History More Than Ever Before
Oct 13, 2026 · 16 min · 12 segments
Find the full text of this article at https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/need-history-more-before/. Check out…
Oct 13, 2026 · 16 min · 12 segments
Find the full text of this article at https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/need-history-more-before/. Check out…
Why we need history today more than ever before.
I'm Sarah Irving-Stonebraker.
"I'm just disconnected," a friend said, pausing before emphasizing the last word.
I was chatting after church with some young adults, and one of them, with her characteristic candor and insight, touched upon something.
This sense of disconnection was the same thing I was hearing from my students at university.
In contemporary culture, many people are rootless, atomized, and unsure of where they belong.
When life is all about self-invention, history is deemed irrelevant.
And yet the culture of you do you is producing an epidemic of loneliness, an anxious generation, to use Jonathan Haidt's term, and rapid polarization as people desperately try to find meaning and purpose in the myriad of idols of this world, from politics to wellness to transhumanism.
This is an opportunity for Christians.
If we understand something about why history matters biblically and how to steward it well, then history can help us speak the gospel into this rootless age.
Why we need history today more than ever before.
I'm Sarah Irving-Stonebraker.
"I'm just disconnected," a friend said, pausing before emphasizing the last word.
I was chatting after church with some young adults, and one of them, with her characteristic candor and insight, touched upon something.
This sense of disconnection was the same thing I was hearing from my students at university.
In contemporary culture, many people are rootless, atomized, and unsure of where they belong.
When life is all about self-invention, history is deemed irrelevant.
And yet the culture of you do you is producing an epidemic of loneliness, an anxious generation, to use Jonathan Haidt's term, and rapid polarization as people desperately try to find meaning and purpose in the myriad of idols of this world, from politics to wellness to transhumanism.
This is an opportunity for Christians.
If we understand something about why history matters biblically and how to steward it well, then history can help us speak the gospel into this rootless age.
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