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Matthew LoftusCulture

a few different and possibly useful categories of idea-expressers - Doctors Without Boredom

thinking about the different sorts of idea-expressers and how much attention they deserve

Matthew LoftusCulture

a few different and possibly useful categories of idea-expressers - Doctors Without Boredom

thinking about the different sorts of idea-expressers and how much attention they deserve

Daniel HillFeatured

Book Review: Black Fundamentalists by Daniel Bare - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Daniel Bare. Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 272 pp, $30. I was born and raised in the Pentecostal church, steeped and simmered in the rhythms of the AOG […]

Brad EastFeatured

Market Apocalypse - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Rodney Clapp. Naming Neo-Liberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2021. 250 pp, $24.00 In recent years liberalism has been on the ropes. Not the liberalism of the Democratic Party, where the L-word means “left of center.” Liberalism […]

Onsi A. KamelFeaturedCurrent Politics

We Became American: Why the Right is Wrong about Afghan Refugees - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In 1969, my father escaped Libya in the back of a Red Cross ambulance just after Moammar Qaddafi overthrew King Idris I. Just six years old, my father, along with my aunts and grandparents, fled directly from Tripoli to Baltimore, where he lived for […]

Nathan JowersFeaturedTrinity

Laughter and Simplicity: Why Didn’t the Monad Cross the Road? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Q. Why didn’t the monad cross the road? A. Because it lacks spatial location.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Starfish Stories - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At the climax of the recent wannabe-blockbuster film The Suicide Squad[1], a giant mind-controlling starfish is wreaking havoc across a nondescript non-American city when the team of super-villains (who are, from a story perspective, the heroes of the movie) must […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

‘What’s Wrong with Rights?’ with Dr. Nigel Biggar

‘What’s Wrong with Rights?’ with Dr. Nigel Biggar

Joseph HonesckoFeaturedEvangelicalism

Book Review: Enjoying the Bible by Matthew Mullins - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Mullins. Enjoying the Bible: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. 224 pp, $22.99. I stood before my class of mostly unengaged private Christian school students in a small Texas town. Masks covered the bottom […]

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season: Episode 11: Ordinary Time

Sacred Season: Ordinary Time Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the sanctification of our work, our calling to make disciples, and abiding in Christ.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season: Episode 11: Ordinary Time

Sacred Season: Ordinary Time Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the sanctification of our work, our calling to make disciples, and abiding in Christ.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

‘Ministers of Reconciliation,’ with Dr. Matthew Kim

‘Ministers of Reconciliation,’ with Dr. Matthew Kim