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Paul HelmFeatured

Book Review: "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self" by Carl Trueman - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As befits a historian, Carl Trueman has written his impressive book on the ‘sexual revolution’ (SR) as being largely a history of ideas. This history is built of two components. The first element is largely framed in terms of contemporary […]

Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedGaming

A Game About Grace and Weakness - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories began as gifts to his children, with the adventures of Bilbo told at bedtime. My husband, Alexi, and I have tried to follow in his footsteps, albeit in a different genre. We co-wrote a role-playing game, Back […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Scott Alexander, the Hitpiece, and the Limits of Inquiry - Radio Free Thulcandra

In certain moods I think that one of the greatest current social fights is the fight against the Grey Tribe ascendency, against the let’s-regard-humans-and-society-as-an-amoral-optimization-experiment approach to life. There are certain versions of this that are at the center of the […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Scott Alexander, the Hitpiece, and the Limits of Inquiry - Radio Free Thulcandra

In certain moods I think that one of the greatest current social fights is the fight against the Grey Tribe ascendency, against the let’s-regard-humans-and-society-as-an-amoral-optimization-experiment approach to life. There are certain versions of this that are at the center of the […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Senator Rubio's Work | Mere Orthodoxy

It sounds good to argue that governmental family aid should be tied to work. But what if work is actually the problem for many Americans?

James ClarkFeatured

Book Review: Orthodox Anglican Identity by Charles Erlandson - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“To be an Anglican is to talk about what it means to be an Anglican.”[1] This has certainly been the case so far in the twenty-first century, with no fewer than four books on the subject published in the past […]

Rhys LavertyFeatured

Kafka in Heaven: "Soul" and the After Life as Bureaucracy

Pixar's "Soul" is the latest story to imagine the after life as a vast bureaucracy. Where it fails it fails because of the inhumanity of bureaucracy.

Matthew SheddenReadingnotes from the sermon

Notes from the Sermon 2.7 - Trivial

On Mondays I’ll be posting a quote I shared during the sermon or from the cutting room floor. I’ll post the scripture I referenced, and the connections may or may not be obvious. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of […]

Matthew SheddenReadingnotes from the sermon

Notes from the Sermon 2.7 - Trivial

On Mondays I’ll be posting a quote I shared during the sermon or from the cutting room floor. I’ll post the scripture I referenced, and the connections may or may not be obvious. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of […]

Vika PecherskyFeaturedCulture War

Dr. Trueman's Hauerwasian Turn - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“My wish is that this book might help Christians rediscover that their most important social task is nothing less than to be a community capable of hearing the story of God we find in the scripture and living in a […]

J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Missiology After Liberalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western […]

Jesse RussellFeatured

Faith Lost and Found in "Ad Astra" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his 2006 Wired essay, “The Church of the Non-Believers,” journalist Gary Wolf coined the term “New Atheists” to describe the intellectual movement inaugurated by a quartet of thinkers who pressed for a militant revival of Neo-Darwinism in the wake […]