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Paul D. MillerFeaturedCurrent Politics

Politics Is More Than Abortion vs Character - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There has been a lot of Christian handwringing about American politics and the 2020 election. Al Mohler updated the same line of thought that has led to four decades of alliance between conservative, pro-life evangelicals with the Republican Party by […]

Patrick PiersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Dogmatic Partisanship's Dead End | Mere Orthodoxy

The only way out of our death spiral of polarization is to set aside desires to purge the "other" from public life and, instead, seek to form coalitions.

Sahr MbriwaFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

An Unbelieving Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Author and psychiatrist, Curt Thompson, once remarked “we become what we pay attention to.” Reformulated as a question, it becomes arguably the guiding question we need today, namely who are you becoming? In a time of political crisis and social […]

Casey ChalkFeatured

Cultivating a Christian Imagination in a Pornographic Age - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God,” declared Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:8). It’s interesting that Christ directly associates purity with the ability to perceive God, and, as many interpreters argue, the […]

Kirsten SandersFeaturedEducation

On Unlearning - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Come now, O Lord my God. Teach my heart where and how to seek you, where and how to find you. Lord, if you are not here, where shall I seek you, since you are absent? But if you are […]

Elizabeth SticeFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics

Reading "In Praise of Folly" in 2020 | Mere Orthodoxy

The 16th century writer and reformer Erasmus of Rotterdam has much to teach us in our own moment of cultural fragmentation.

Jessica JoustraFeatured

Book Review: Bavinck: A Critical Biography by James Eglinton - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It is no surprise that such a remarkable biography comes from the desk of James Eglinton, who has already established himself as a leading voice in Bavinck studies. In his first book, Trinity and Organism, Eglinton set a new course […]

Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

'Hearers and Doers,' with Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer

'Hearers and Doers,' with Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer

Gerald J. RusselloFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Catholic Judge in a Post-Liberal Age - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court has once again raised the question of the role of Catholicism in American public life. Catholic judges are often in the position. But in interesting ways, she may represent […]

Anthony BarrFeaturedEconomics and Business

It's Not the Economy: Big Tech, Anti-Trust, & the Future of Political Liberalism

The primary problems Big Tech creates are not primarily economic, but political. As such, anti-trust measures only brush against the main issue.

Vika PecherskyFeaturedCurrent Politics

This Gruesome Guest - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Nihilism is at our door: whence comes this most gruesome of all guests to us? —Friedrich Nietzsche[1] If nihilism devalues even the highest of values, we can state with a fair amount of certainty that we are living in it […]

Matthew LaPineFeaturedembodimentAnthropology

The Logic of the Body - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A Thomistic psychology will help us understand the complex relationship between our bodies and our emotions, helping us know how to aid wounded people.