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Kayla SnowFeatured

Book Review: Listening to a Continent Sing by Donald Kroodsma - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Donald Kroodsma. Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 336 pp, $21.95. It’s early spring as I sit on my porch reading the opening pages of Listening to […]

Vika PecherskyFeatured

The Beatitudes Through the Ages: An Interview with Rebekah Eklund - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Interview with Rebekah Eklund for Mere Orthodoxy “Whence then doth He begin? and what kind of foundations of His new polity doth He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Beatitudes: “Persecuted for Righteousness”

Beatitudes: “Persecuted for Righteousness”

Heather PetersonFeaturedCollege and University

Christian Organizations Should Reconsider Using the Intercultural Development Inventory

If you’ve ever taken the Intercultural Development Inventory, a psychometric assessment administered at multiple secular and Christian organizations, you may have sensed that there’s more to it than your ability to get along with people of other cultures. In a […]

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 12: We Believe

In the Nicene Creed, we confess that we believe in one God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jake MeadorFeatured

On Whether Football is Coming Home - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It would seem that football is not, in fact, coming home.

Trevor LaurenceFeaturedChurch

An Unresolved and Perilous Ambiguity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently, the 48th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America convened in St. Louis, Missouri. While much important business was conducted in the span of a few days, considerable attention was directed to the issue of ordination standards, particularly […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

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E. J. HutchinsonFeatured

Mary's Visitation in the Present Tense - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For the church in the West, July 2nd has traditionally marked the church’s remembrance of the Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. Both were with child under fearful and threatening circumstances. And in Elizabeth’s womb John the Baptist leaped […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Beatitudes: “Peacemakers” - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Everyone has a Beatitude that is their least favorite or that they are most confused by. We’re not saying Matt has an issue with peacemaking. (We’re just sayin’.) This episode in the Mere Fi series on the Beatitudes features a […]

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season Episode 10: Pentecost

Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives as Christians and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives as moms.

Bill MeloneFeaturedCurrent Politics

Cultural Assimilation and the Curious Cases of Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, educator Jane Elliot held an experiment with her elementary school students that she called “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes.” The experiment became famous, and she repeated it for various audiences for years, […]