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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

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.