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Attention: a Breaking Ground Newsletter - Radio Free Thulcandra

This is the text of this week’s Breaking Ground newsletter. To view the website, and to sign up for the newsletter, go here.  If, in January, we thought that we had transcended the limits of our physicality, we know better […]

Daniel DeCarloFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Strange Death of the Populist Dream and Victory of Woke Integralism

Human beings are inextricably religious creatures desiring transcendent purpose. Populism ignores this fact. Woke integralism does not.

Matthew LoftusCultureCriminal Justice

things that can be true at the same time - Doctors Without Boredom

A collection of thoughts about race, policing, and the Church in America.

Matthew LoftusCultureCriminal Justice

things that can be true at the same time - Doctors Without Boredom

A collection of thoughts about race, policing, and the Church in America.

Caleb WaitPainSufferingCultureTheologytheodicyMere Fidelity

'Christ and Calamity,' with Dr. Harold Senkbeil

'Christ and Calamity,' with Dr. Harold Senkbeil

Stephen G. AdubatoFeatured

Getting Back to Our Bodies: Feminism, Ontology, and Metaphysics - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The onslaught of comments following J.K. Rowling’s critique of gender theory demonstrates an ever-growing confusion toward sexual difference and the concept of personhood more generally. “If sex isn’t real,” she tweeted, “the lived reality of women globally is erased. I […]

Onsi A. KamelFeatured

Presbyterians in Egypt | Mere Orthodoxy

Differences in how English and American missionaries approached their work in Egypt are suggestive of deeper problems within American Protestantism.

Caleb Wait

The Imago Dei - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Imago Dei is one of the most used theological categories to argue why all humans deserve dignity and sanctity. However, is this all that the imago dei should be used for? The entire cast and crew of Matt, Derek, […]

Brian WilliamsFeaturedEvangelicalism

J. I. Packer: Catechetical Theologian | Mere Orthodoxy

Over a career of 65 years J. I. Packer showed how to be a catechetical theologian—pray, meditate on Scripture, and struggle to remain faithful to the text.

Brad LittlejohnPolitical Theory

Do We Still Belong Together? Lessons from Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton's thought on how to be a conservative is also instructive in how to belong to a political community.

Onsi A. KamelFeaturedCurrent Politics

Making Sense of Kanye 2020 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The system broken, the school is closed, the prison’s open… In this white man world, we the ones chosen.” “Is hip-hop just a euphemism for a new religion? The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing? But […]

David AlexanderFeaturedCurrent Politics

Pastors, Priests, and Police: Understanding the Third Commandment

Abuse by police officers or pastors is uniquely evil because it abuses and discredits an office of high importance for the health of society.