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Jake Meador

Gutierrez Against the Doctrine of the Two - Commonplaces

Gutierrez in A Theology of Liberation: The model which distinguishes faith and temporal realities, Church and world, leads to the perception of two missions in the church and to a sharp differentiation between the roles of the priest and the lay […]

Jake Meador

O'Donovan on Reading - Commonplaces

Our moment is starved for this sort of intellectual spirit:

Jake Meador

O'Donovan on Reading - Commonplaces

Our moment is starved for this sort of intellectual spirit:

Joshua HeavinFeaturedCreation Care

The Virus and the Earth | Mere Orthodoxy

Though it has not been discussed as much, the pandemic has presented us with many reasons to take the threat of climate change more seriously.

Caleb WaitThe GospelCultureTheologyChurchMere Fidelity

What is The Gospel™?

What is The Gospel™?

Jake MeadorFeaturedFormation

Keep Christianity Weird | Mere Orthodoxy

Weird Christianity, as defined in Tara Isabella Burton's NYT column is a welcome movement in the American church. But dangers to it abound on all sides.

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 […]