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David KoyzisFeaturedCurrent Politics

Clash of Idols | Mere Orthodoxy

The three dominant political blocs in contemporary America are all idolatrous in ways that make it difficult for Christians to support them in their work.

Matthew ArboFeatured

The Importance of Political Theology | Mere Orthodoxy

A mature political theology can help questions understand the nature of their citizenship in the world and what that does (and doesn't) require of them.

Justin HawkinsFeaturedCurrent PoliticsHealth and Medicine

What the Coronavirus Reveals: An Invitation to American Evangelicals Who Have Been Quoting that C.S. Lewis Essay - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The argument of this essay is simple. I want to invite Christians, particularly American evangelicals, to a new consideration of how the coronavirus might cause them to rethink what kind of healthcare policy ought to mark a flourishing society. I […]

Andrew SpencerFeaturedCreation Care

Earth Day 2020: Toward a Humane Environmentalism

Some environmental activism in recent years has taken an anti-human turn. Such a move is both unnecessary and harmful to the environmental movement.

Caleb Wait

"Politics After Christendom," with Dr. David VanDrunen - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What kind of political theology do we need in an age after Christendom? Dr. David VanDrunen joins Matt and Derek to discuss his latest book, Politics After Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World, where he aims to answer this […]

J. Todd BillingsFeatured

An Individual Paradise Is Not Enough: Why We Need a Cosmic Hope

In this good but contaminated world, we wait in hope for the Lord to appear again, in the risen Christ, to reclaim creation as his dwelling place.

Vika PecherskyPoliticsFeaturedCulture

We're All Legalists Now: Notes on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address

Alexander Solzhenitsyn opens his Harvard commencement address with a statement that is characteristically Russian, something Dostoyevsky would probably say — “The truth is seldom pleasant; it is invariably bitter.”

Andrew ArndtFeaturedChurch

How Not to Talk About Pastoral Ministry During a Plague - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’m generally not one to complain about tone when assessing a book or article; I don’t love the foray into hopeless subjectivity that such a move (to me, anyhow) usually represents. But there are times when tone matters and you […]

Daniel DeCarlo

The Education of Ross Douthat: Reviewing The Decadent Society

Douthat's latest feels almost comically outdated today, even six weeks after publication, but where the book is wrong is also where it is most illuminating.

Andrew WalkerFeaturedEconomics and BusinessCurrent Politics

Moral Realism, Public Health, and Truth Telling Amid COVID-19

As we look toward life after COVID-19, we must do so with a more capacious understanding of public health that encompasses all of a society's life together.

Caleb Wait

Eastertide In The Time of Coronavirus - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matt, Derek, and Alastair discuss how they are celebrating Easter in the time of coronavirus, and how the Eastertide season looks to them in quarantine. Listen in for insights on how to celebrate the victory over death in the midst […]

John LeeFeaturedEconomics and Business

Ark of Consumerism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Rockefeller Center sprawls for 22 acres in one of the densest cities on earth, its highest tower stretches 850 feet into the sky, and it has over 8,000,000 square feet of office and retail space. Within this complex dwells a […]