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Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Beatitudes: “Pure in Heart”

Beatitudes: “Pure in Heart”

Jake MeadorFeatured

Book Excerpt: Either Way, We'll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. Christ’s death brings us back into communion with our Creator: […]

Michael GrahamFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Written with Skyler Flowers Colin Kaepernick. “Grab them by the p… ” Confederate monuments. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. COVID – serious problem or overblown? Trump, Biden, other, or abstain? January 6th, 2021. The last few years have highlighted […]

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 10: We believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

In the final articles of the Nicene Creed, we confess that “we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 10: We believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

In the final articles of the Nicene Creed, we confess that “we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Betraying Tyndale: Notes Against Propaganda - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I think this essay is maybe about my parents, particularly my mother, but it’s also about what they taught me and how that relates to the turmoil currently roiling America’s public life. My mom’s formal education ended with a high-school […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

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

Continuing the series of discussions on the Beatitudes, Matt, Alastair, and Derek come to “Blessed are the merciful.” Mercy is a virtue that has enormous possibilities for social transformation. It is so central to God’s identity and to ours as […]

Cameron ShafferFeatured

Book Review: Reparations by Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I In Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance & Repair (Brazos Press, 2021), Presbyterian Church in America ministers Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson lay out their biblical and historical case for the American church making reparations to African Americans. […]

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 9: The Holy Spirit… who with the Father and the Son is Worshiped and Glorified

Passages: Season 1, Episode 9: The Holy Spirit... who with the Father and the Son is Worshiped and Glorified - Passages

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 9: The Holy Spirit… who with the Father and the Son is Worshiped and Glorified

Passages: Season 1, Episode 9: The Holy Spirit... who with the Father and the Son is Worshiped and Glorified - Passages

Matthew LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics

Racism and Whiteness: Bad Words We Have to Live With - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like anyone who has thought about the problem of race for more than five minutes, I find the topic of language and terminology vexing. Terms like racism, anti-blackness, ethnocentric, antiracist, white supremacy, whiteness, prejudice, (and now quite unfortunately) woke or […]