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Dustin MesserFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Why We All Need Baptists to be Baptist - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The liturgy started sleepily this fourth Sunday in Advent, people trickling in later than usual. A traffic jam made traveling downtown to our Anglican parish especially difficult. It turned out the standstill was caused by the Secret Service. As we, […]

Joshua Heavin

Notes on Season One of Passages

A number of listeners have reached out to us with various questions about the first season of “Passages.” Here are our answers.

Joshua Heavin

Notes on Season One of Passages

A number of listeners have reached out to us with various questions about the first season of “Passages.” Here are our answers.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Toward a Constructive Public Christianity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Hello Joshua. I really appreciate the work you do through your podcast. I need a little help if possible.” That’s the start of a listener email that Josh Heavin, writer and co-producer of our podcast “Passages,” received a month ago. […]

Jake MeadorFeatured

Mere Orthodoxy Best of 2021 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As is our custom, we’re going to be doing some year-end wrap ups over the next couple weeks. I’ll have this year’s Eliot Awards up later in the week, God-willing. For now, here’s a run down of the best of Mere […]

Jake Meador

Being Deep in History and Protestant - Commonplaces

If your background is anything like mine, you both grew up in the church and grew up tremendously ignorant of much of what the church has said and thought throughout her history. I remember realizing with a shock while I […]

Jake Meador

Being Deep in History and Protestant - Commonplaces

If your background is anything like mine, you both grew up in the church and grew up tremendously ignorant of much of what the church has said and thought throughout her history. I remember realizing with a shock while I […]

Rhys LavertyFeatured

Why Christmas Ghost Stories? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is, surely, the most thrilling Christmas song. It’s the pre-chorus – that sudden lurch into minor chords. Glorious, glitzy euphoria suddenly hangs in the balance, your stomach drops out, and wonder is split […]

Heather PetersonFeaturedEducationCurrent Politics

Moral Values and the Intercultural Development Inventory - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a previous article, I wrote about my concern with Christian organizations employing the Intercultural Development Inventory for two reasons, the undermining of the image of God and the undermining of objective moral values.

Daniel M. JohnsonFeatured

Omnirationality and Divine Providence - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When I was five, my family left our comfortable home in southern Oregon so that my father could attend Westminster Seminary. The two years we spent in Escondido, California were harder than my parents expected. My father was working full-time […]

Matthew J. ThomasBibleFeatured

Book Review: Paul and the Power of Grace by John M. G. Barclay - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It would be futile to try to hide my appreciation for John Barclay’s Paul and the Power of Grace, and this review will make little attempt to do so. Indeed, it is my recommendation that the reader of this review […]

David MoorePoliticsFeatured

We the Fallen People: An Interview with Robert McKenzie - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Robert Tracy McKenzie is Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and professor of history at Wheaton College. The following interview revolves around McKenzie’s latest book, We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy. We […]