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Paul ShakeshaftFeaturedChurch

The Via Media of George Herbert | Mere Orthodoxy

George Herbert's verse presents a model of Anglicanism that is neither Reformed nor Anglo-Catholic. It is more a settled disposition than an ideology.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Busena and Emmanuel's Story: Refugees Seeking Peace

A 19-year-old South Sudanese man is facing imminent deportation over robbery charges he pled guilty to as a 16-year-old. This is his family's story.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Thinking Christianly About the Ahmaud Arbery Lynching - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Let’s start here. This is what we know about what happened in February in Brunswick GA when Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed according to the New York Times: BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Ahmaud Arbery loved to run. It was how […]

Malcolm FoleyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Lynching Then and Lynching Now: Racial Justice as Christian Imperative

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is tragically not an anomaly in American history: It is, rather, another tragic chapter in our nation's long story of lynching.

Todd HainsFeatured

The Gospel is for Us | Mere Orthodoxy

We should not act as if the Gospel of individual salvation and the Gospel of Jesus's kingship are rivals; they both belong together.

Caleb Wait

The Future of Christian Higher Education with Dr. John Mark Reynolds - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

College debt, an economic crisis, and the potential problem of aristocratic elitism in classical education are just some of the issues facing Christian higher education today. Here to discuss these and more, Matt and Derek are joined by Dr. John […]

B. G. WhiteFeatured

Crisis of Vulnerability | Mere Orthodoxy

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reckon with a fact that our world tries very hard to ignore: we are all vulnerable and doomed to die.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Liberalism, the American Right, and the Place of Love in Politics

Gregory's "Politics and the Order of Love" is a helpful guide for thinking carefully about key questions in the debates happening on the American right.

Paul OwenFeaturedChurch

Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism?: A Defense of Anglo-Catholicism

The Oxford Movement wasn't an innovation in Anglican liturgy, but actually an attempt to return to an older Anglicanism that had existed from the beginning.

Daniel DeCarloFeaturedCurrent Politics

To Help Persecuted Christians the U.S. Needs to Freeze the Buhari Regime's Stolen Funds - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The US is considering returning $300m in stolen funds to Nigeria's Buhari regime despite the government's rampant corruption and persecution of Christians.

David FrankFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormation

The Case for Donating Your Stimulus Check - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

During a pandemic, it always feels dark. Many future unknowns await us. But we can learn from an unknown Jewish prisoner who penned this line in a poem he wrote within his concentration camp cell.

Caleb WaitCultureTheologyChurchpastoringMere Fidelityministry

"The Care of Souls," with Dr. Harold Senkbeil

"The Care of Souls," with Dr. Harold Senkbeil