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Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 5: We Believe in the Son of God, of one Being with the Father

In the Nicene Creed we confess that “we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made...

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 5: We Believe in the Son of God, of one Being with the Father

In the Nicene Creed we confess that “we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made...

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Easter Hymns

Easter Hymns

Ali KjergaardFeatured

In Praise of Reading Aloud - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It felt a bit awkward at first, a group of friends in their mid twenties sitting around in my library in an old Capitol Hill row house. We had all brought our copies of various Tolkien, some with a well-loved […]

Jake Meador

Let's Talk About "Theonomy" - Commonplaces

Occasional Mere O contributor Andrew Walker has published a muddled and confused essay about theonomy over at TGC. Given the nature of the errors, I wanted to take the time to lay out the issues with the piece in hopes […]

Jake Meador

Let's Talk About "Theonomy" - Commonplaces

Occasional Mere O contributor Andrew Walker has published a muddled and confused essay about theonomy over at TGC. Given the nature of the errors, I wanted to take the time to lay out the issues with the piece in hopes […]

Andrew BertodattiFeatured

I Am a Unit of One - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

After Jiang Qing married Mao Zedong in 1938, Communist leadership informed her that to join the Communist movement, she would need to submit her will to a work unit. Qing, who before her marriage to Mao was an aspiring actress, […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Beatitudes: “Those Who Mourn”

Beatitudes: “Those Who Mourn”

Matthew LoftusFeatured

A Shot Off the Mark: Reviewing Christakis's "Apollo's Arrow" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The most interesting part of Nicholas Christakis’ new book Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live is, unfortunately, its title. The book was mostly written in August 2020, published in October 2020, and […]

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 4: We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ

In the Nicene Creed we confess that “we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made...

Joshua HeavinPassages

Passages: Season 1, Episode 4: We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ

In the Nicene Creed we confess that “we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made...

Roberto De La NovalFeatured

Sin for Its Own Sake? The Theft of the Pears and the Divine Image in Augustine’s Confessions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The complex recounting of the “theft of the pears” in Book 2 of his Confessions is often distilled into Augustine’s famous evaluation of the act: “I simply wanted to enjoy the theft for its own sake, and the sin” (nec […]