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Isaiah BergFeatured

Book Review: Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher

Dreher's latest is a bracing and convicting call to commit ourselves to truth, even in the face of opposition and adversity.

Angela GorrellFeatured

Book Review: Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen

We live in a cultural landscape ripe for burnout. In Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen engages in compelling cultural analysis to argue why millennials are not lazy or entitled (as they have wrongly been […]

Ian OlsonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Death Does Not Come for the Deserving

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

US vs. UK Evangelicalism

How does Evangelicalism differ between the UK and the US? The Mere Fidelity crew is perfectly situated to address this question from personal experience and expertise. Andrew Wilson joins this

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Christian Hospitality in an Age of Fear: An Interview with Rod Dreher

This is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of a conversation I had with Rod Dreher about his new book Live Not by Lies. Jake Meador: Thanks so much for joining me. I’m excited to talk to you more about […]

Cort GatliffFeaturedHealth and MedicineAnthropology

Book Review: The End of the Christian Life by J. Todd Billings

We live in a death-denying and death-defying culture. We know, on an intellectual level, that one day we will die, yet we tend to avoid contemplating this inescapable truth more than is strictly necessary. For modern people, death is an […]

timmotteTheologyMere Fidelity

'Divine Ideas,' with Dr. Thomas M. Ward

If all being originates in God, and God is One, how can there be many beings? This is just one of the questions that Dr. Thomas Ward discusses here with

Kyle DillonFeatured

Natural Law in Early Protestantism

The role of natural law in Reformed Protestantism has been a topic of considerable debate since the twentieth century. As early as the debate between Karl Barth and Emil Brunner in 1934, two competing views on natural law emerged: the […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

American Solidarity Party: Don't Throw Away Your Shot

Why not vote for a candidate you can actually support? Brian Carroll and Amar Patel, the American Solidarity Party ticket, are on the ballot in eight states; you can write them in in all other states. They’re a party that […]

Bob StevensonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Citizen Strangers and the Cost of Compromise

The words flowed in perfect patriotic cadence. “My fellow Americans, we are going through a time of testing. But if you look through the fog of these challenging times, you will see, our flag is still there today…” Words that […]

Paul D. MillerFeaturedCurrent Politics

Politics Is More Than Abortion vs Character

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

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.