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Jeff LiouFeaturedCurrent Politics

Critical Race Theory, Campus Culture, and Reformed Theology - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

No diploma and no graduation, that was the punishment. Five students had organized a large public protest on their university campus. A scholar who opposed the #blacklivesmatter movement had come to their school to deliver a public lecture. In response, […]

Jake MeadorPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda (II) - Commonplaces

Here is Kaunda, still setting out what he means by “African Humanism,” in the opening chapter of A Humanist in Africa. Here he is arguing that there are certain values in traditional African culture (an admittedly tricky term which he doesn’t […]

Jake MeadorPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda (II) - Commonplaces

Here is Kaunda, still setting out what he means by “African Humanism,” in the opening chapter of A Humanist in Africa. Here he is arguing that there are certain values in traditional African culture (an admittedly tricky term which he doesn’t […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Land is Bright - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

And not through eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, — how slowly! But westward — look! the land is bright. ~ A. H. Clough And so Roe is overthrown. Some […]

David MooreFeatured

From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Louis Markos is the beloved and brilliant Professor of English at Houston Baptist University. He is a prolific author, leading expert on C.S. Lewis, and has a keen interest in ancient Greece and Rome. All of these and more come […]

Jake MeadorPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda (1) - Commonplaces

For reasons I may explain later, I’m doing a bit of a deep dive on some pan-Africanist thinkers right now, currently working on Kenneth Kaunda but with plans to also return to Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah later, both of […]

Jake MeadorPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda (1) - Commonplaces

For reasons I may explain later, I’m doing a bit of a deep dive on some pan-Africanist thinkers right now, currently working on Kenneth Kaunda but with plans to also return to Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah later, both of […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

What I Saw at the Justice Summit - Commonplaces

Last week I spent two days on the south side of Chicago attending the justice summit at Progressive Baptist Church, pastored by the Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates. These are some general observations from my time there, though I expect that […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

What I Saw at the Justice Summit - Commonplaces

Last week I spent two days on the south side of Chicago attending the justice summit at Progressive Baptist Church, pastored by the Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates. These are some general observations from my time there, though I expect that […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

From Whom All Fatherhood On Earth Takes Its Name - Radio Free Thulcandra

Τούτου χάριν κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα, τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ, ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ ἐν οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ὀνομάζεται… Here, in Ephesians, Paul talks about the Patera, the Father, from whom pasa patria, all fatherhood/every […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

From Whom All Fatherhood On Earth Takes Its Name - Radio Free Thulcandra

Τούτου χάριν κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα, τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ, ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ ἐν οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ὀνομάζεται… Here, in Ephesians, Paul talks about the Patera, the Father, from whom pasa patria, all fatherhood/every […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Cultural Conversion, Thirteenth Century England Style; or, James Davison Hunter Vindicated by Sir Maurice Powicke - Radio Free Thulcandra

Norman Cantor (bitter, brilliant, blinkered; he was wrong about Lewis and so I don’t necessarily trust him to be right about others) writes that according to Sir Maurice Powicke, the key transformations of the thirteenth century “were not political and […]