Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from the biography Timothy Keller by Collin Hansen. In this excerpt, Hansen recounts Keller’s interactions with students attending an evangelism event put on by the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union—an event which Keller spoke at multiple times. While addressing a skeptic’s concern over Christianity’s judgment against homosexuality in 2015, Keller exposed the false assumptions about individualism, community, and moral truth living under the surface of the skeptic’s question. From this interaction and the fruit that followed, we are encouraged to consider how we may employ a similar apologetical approach when confronting secularism’s edge in evangelism.
Every three years, the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) hosts a six-day mission to evangelize more than 20,000 students in this iconic English university town. The missions began in 1940, months before the Battle of Britain. Martyn Lloyd-Jones led the missions in 1943 and 1951. Other heroes of Tim Keller—John Stott and Michael Green—also led Oxford missions.
During his first Oxford mission in early February 2012, Tim and Kathy Keller along with their son Michael and his wife Sara stayed in the Old Parsonage Hotel, just a couple blocks north of the
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