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Jake MeadorFeatured

Narnia Essay Contest - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We announced this on Twitter earlier in the week, but here’s the official announcement on our website: We’re running our first ever essay contest. We are going to publish seven essays, each of which arguing for why one of the […]

Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

What is an Institution?

What is an Institution?

Kevin BrownFeaturedEducation

An Appeal from a Christian Liberal Arts University President - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

According to legend, thousands of years ago the mighty King Croesus of Lydia consulted with the oracle of Delphi to determine whether he should battle the great Persian Empire. The oracle famously replied, “If Croesus goes to war he will […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedCreation Care

The Dust Bowl, Remembered - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In clean, cool air the morning after a thunderstorm, while blazing pink and golden light spills over the horizon before becoming a deep cerulean crown over a sweltering summer afternoon, it is difficult to imagine the conditions in Texas only […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can Justice Be Saved? Part Three: On Hope - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the previous two essays of this triptych, I have attempted to sketch how the Gospel of Jesus Christ might shape our understanding of justice in order to clarify what our responsibilities as Christians might be in our own time. […]

Henry GeorgeFeatured

Book Review: Strange Rites by Tara Isabella Burton - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Arnold mourned the long withdrawing roar of faith in the 19th century. Fin de siècle European culture moved to the rhythm of Nietzsche’s poetry-by-jackhammer that proclaimed the death of God and the rule of the value-less Last Man. The […]

Joshua FarrisFeaturedembodiment

A Theology of Faces: Notes on the Costs of Masking - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I have heard it said time and time again: “Wearing a face covering is a small sacrifice to love your neighbor.” All this in the context of discussing face masks ever since the CDC and, some experts, decided that it […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can Charity Save Justice | Mere Orthodoxy

It was an ordinary Sunday afternoon in the Anderson household a few years back, full of books and tea and other comforts. My wife had momentarily interrupted my reading by giving me a kiss, seemingly without cause. It captured just […]

J. Brandon MeeksFeaturedEvangelicalism

We Don't Need Revival - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“We need revival.” ~The Teeming Masses This phrase, ubiquitous among broad evangelicals, has transmogrified from banal cliche to axiomatic mantra. Having been chanted with such frequency that there is virtually no quarter among popular Christianity where it doesn’t reverberate, it […]

Caleb Wait

Prophets at Large - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The pitfalls surrounding our public speech and proclamations are many: Why is it that we avoid topics so as to appease certain constituencies, and why is it that we are more than happy to engage others and make a show […]

Colleen LuleyChurch ResourcesFamily

Church: Essential or Non-Essential? - The Crossing Blog

With the pandemic, society argues whether church is “essential” or “non-essential.” What about you? How important is Sunday morning church?

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

Can Justice Be Saved? | Mere Orthodoxy

Christians can't embrace all aspects of contemporary ideas of social justice. But we must also recognize that what came before was similarly dangerous.