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Gracy OlmsteadFeaturedCreation CareCurrent Politics

Why Protecting Rivers is a Conservative Cause | Mere Orthodoxy

Clean drinking water is a good worth protecting—even if it means one less suburb, or a few more regulations for oil and gas companies.

Daniel DeCarloFeatured

Hinterland: Review of an Apocalypse - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Shattered souls and ruined lives are the plot, and the ever-burgeoning, post-industrial wastelands created by the forces of global capitalism are the setting in Phil A. Neel’s gripping and brutal new book Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict. […]

Brian MesimerFeatured

Leviathan, Zarathustra, and the End(s) of Liberalism | Mere Orthodoxy

To sustain itself liberalism must receive moral content from outside itself. In the absence of such content, it will fracture and break.

Jake MeadorFeatured

The Freedom of the Trad - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Freddie De Boer has a typically sharp post up at his personal blog analyzing the ‘trad’ trend in some (mostly culturally elite) social circles. Do read the whole thing, but this graf gets at the main critique nicely: Here’s the […]

T. Wyatt ReynoldsFeatured

Book Review: The Genealogical Adam and Eve by Joshua Swamidass

Wyatt Reynolds reviews Swamidass's intriguing proposal for talking about origins with a particular focus on the question of common ancestry.

Caleb Wait

The Imprecatory Psalms with Trevor Laurence - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christians are told to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them, but should we also pray for justice and judgment to befall our enemies? Trevor Laurence, Executive Director of the Cateclesia Institute, joins Derek and Andrew to […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Notes on Christianity Today's Impeachment Editorial | Mere Orthodoxy

Many of the responses to Mark Galli's editorial are silly, but one in particular was very good and worth considering at greater length.

Joshua HeavinFeatured

Book Review: The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat | Mere Orthodoxy

Contrary to the straightforward decline narratives popular on the right, Douthat persuasively argues that we may be in a period of stable decadence.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season: Episode 4: Epiphany

Thanks so much for listening to the fourth episode of Sacred Season! Opening Scripture: Isaiah 60:3 Closing Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20 Original podcast music by Shannon Soderlund Resources Eugene Peterson’s book on the life and call of Jeremiah–Run with the Horses:

Cameron ShafferFeaturedEvangelicalism

Our Fathers Left Us Evangelicalism | Mere Orthodoxy

Our fathers left us evangelicalism. We can, and ought, to leave our children something better.

Guest WriterFeaturedFormation12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas: January 2 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, […]

Katelyn Walls SheltonFeaturedFormation12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas: January 1, Feast of the Holy Name - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with […]