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Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

We’ve Got to Talk About Vaccines, with Dr. Gilbert Meilaender

We’ve Got to Talk About Vaccines, with Dr. Gilbert Meilaender

Jamie CarlsonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Accusations Aren't Evidence: Responding to "Jesus and John Wayne" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation” begins with a holier-than-thou character having a book, along with her sin, thrown in her face. She returns home with a bruised face and bruised pride to reflect on her sins. For many of us, […]

Sean Michael LucasFeaturedEvangelicalism

Jesus Plus Masculinity for America's Sake: Replying to "Jesus and John Wayne" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As I reflected on Calvin University professor Kristin Du Mez’s brilliantly provocative and painful, Jesus and John Wayne, I realized how many different intersections I had with her subject. After all, I serve as a pastor in a Presbyterian denomination […]

Elizabeth SticeFeatured

Book Review: History and Eschatology by N. T. Wright - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

History and Eschatology is a dense but rewarding book based on NT Wright’s Gifford Lectures, in which Wright is attempting to redirect natural theology, bringing history and biblical exegesis to the questions of natural theology to see if that “might […]

Andrew ArndtBibleFeatured

Book Review: Sanctifying Interpretation by Chris E. W. Green - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“God does not save us from interpretation but by it and for it.”[1] So claims Chris Green in the second edition of his marvelous book Sanctifying Interpretation: Vocation, Holiness, and Scripture. (Those familiar with the first edition of his book […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

The Insurrection of January Sixth

The Insurrection of January Sixth

Matthew SheddenUncategorized

Notes from Sermon: 1.17.21 - 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. “Do not judge, or you too will […]

Matthew SheddenUncategorized

Notes from Sermon: 1.17.21 - 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. “Do not judge, or you too will […]

Matthew Sheddentrivial linkTechnology

A Trivial link: 2021 #2 - Trivial

I’ve sent this essay to a couple friends this week because it captures so well the project I care about. Increasingly our world is being pulled into thinking in abstractions. But how do we keep drawing ourselves into the “25-foot […]

Matthew Sheddentrivial linkTechnology

A Trivial link: 2021 #2 - Trivial

I’ve sent this essay to a couple friends this week because it captures so well the project I care about. Increasingly our world is being pulled into thinking in abstractions. But how do we keep drawing ourselves into the “25-foot […]

Jake MeadorFeatured

Catholicism in the Swamp: A Response to Brandon McGinley's "The Prodigal Church" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ed. note: This is the third and final response in our symposium on Brandon McGinley’s book The Prodigal Church. The American landscape has been a fertile seedbed historically for a very specific sort of Christianity. Methodism and Baptist expressions of the […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Defining "White Evangelical Crap" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the comments I got in response to Monday’s post was a fairly simple question: “What exactly do you have in mind when you talk about ‘white evangelical crap?'” It’s a fair question. So here’s an attempt at an […]